Explanation

A 48-bit Ethernet MAC address specified for a port. This address is used as the default source MAC field in the header of generated traffic for the port, and is also used for support of the ARP protocol.

Summary

set and get, value type: HHHHHH

Parameters

hexdata: hex bytes, specifying the six bytes of the MAC address.

Example, set or get:

0/3 P_MACADDRESS 0x001122AABBCC

Explanation

The interval between sending out training packets, allowing a switch to learn the port’s MAC address. Layer-2 switches configure themselves automatically by detecting the source MAC addresses of packets received on each port. If a port only receives, and does not itself transmit test traffic, then the switch will never learn its MAC address. Also, if transmission is very rare the switch will age-out the learned MAC address. By setting the auto-train interval you instruct the port to send switch training packets, independent of whether the port is transmitting test traffic.

Summary

set and get, value type: I

Parameters

interval: integer, specifying the number of seconds between training packets. 0, disable training packets.

Example, set or get:

0/3 P_AUTOTAIN 60

 Explanation

Whether a port responds to incoming Ethernet PAUSE frames, by holding back outgoing traffic.

Summary

set and get, value type: B

Parameters

onoff: coded byte, whether PAUSE response is enabled: [ OFF | ON ]

Example, set or get:

0/0 P_PAUSE OFF

Explanation

This setting control whether a port responds to incoming Ethernet Priority Flow Control (PFC) frames, by holding back outgoing traffic for that priority.

Summary

set and get, value type: Array of B

Parameters

onoff-array: Array of coded bytes, one for each priority value (0 – 7), each byte indicating whether PFC response is enabled for that priority: [ OFF | ON ]

Example, set or get:

0/0 P_PFCENABLE OFF OFF OFF ON ON ON ON OFF

Explanation

The gap-start and gap-stop criteria for the port’s gap monitor.The gap monitor expects a steady stream of incoming packets, and detects larger-than-allowed gaps between them. Once a gap event is encountered it requires a certain number of consequtive packets below the threshold to end the event.

Summary

set and get, value type: I,I

Parameters

start: integer, the maximum allowed gap between packets, in microseconds. (0 – 134.000 microseconds) 0 = disable gap monitor. stop:integer, the minimum number of good packets required. (0 – 1024 packets) 0 = disable gap monitor.

Example, set or get:

0/3 P_GAPMONITOR 1000 5