Administrator Guide

Related
commands
show vlan— Displays VLAN configuration.
description
Assign a descriptive text string to the interface.
Syntax
description desc_text
To delete a description, enter no description command.
Parameters
desc_text Enter a text string up to 240 characters long.
Defaults No description is defined.
Command
Modes
INTERFACE
Command
History
Version 8.3.17.0 Supported on the M I/O Aggregator.
Usage
Information
• Spaces between characters are not preserved after entering this command
unless you enclose the entire description in quotation marks (“desc_text”).
• Entering a text string after the default vlan-id command overwrites any
previous text string configured as the description.
• The show tdr and default vlan-id commands are the only commands
that you can configure on an interface that is a member of a port-channel.
• Use the show interfaces description command to display descriptions
configured for each interface.
Related
commands
show interfaces description— Displays the description field of interfaces..
flowcontrol
Control how the system responds to and generates 802.3x pause frames on 10G and 40Gig stack units.
Syntax
flowcontrol rx {off | on} tx {off | on} [negotiate]
Parameters
rx on Enter the keywords rx on to process the received flow
control frames on this port. This is the default value for the
receive side.
rx off Enter the keywords rx off to ignore the received flow
control frames on this port.
Interfaces
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