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42 IBM and Cisco LAN Switching: Interoperability and Migration Guide
Figure 21. Port Configuration
For port configuration, click Port -> Port Configuration (Figure 21). By
default all ports are enabled and speed and duplex are set to AUTO. We will
leave them as the default, and later see that Port 7 and 8 are using
auto-speed and duplex mode.
It is safer to always configure the trunk ports to fixed values, in this case to
100 Mbps and duplex mode. On some rare occasions the automatic
speed/mode negotiation may fail to reach the best speed/mode due to
limited resources of the boxes at the time of the negotiation.
Note