Users Guide

owcontrol
Control how the system responds to and generates 802.3x pause ow control frames.
Syntax
flowcontrol {rx {off | on} tx {off | on} [negotiate | pause-threshold value |
resume-offset value] | [monitor session-ID]}
To return to the default, use the no form of this command.
Parameters
rx on Enter the keywords rx on to process the received ow control frames on this port.
NOTE: Flow-control packets are mirrored only when ow-control rx is
enabled on an interface.
rx o Enter the keywords rx off to ignore the received ow control frames on this port.
tx on Enter the keywords tx on to send control frames from this port to the connected device
when a higher rate of trac is received.
tx o Enter the keywords tx off so that ow control frames are not sent from this port to
the connected device when a higher rate of trac is received.
pause-threshold Enter the buer threshold limit for generating PAUSE frames.
resume-oset Enter the oset value for generating PAUSE frames to resume trac.
negotiate (Optional) Enter the keyword negotiate to enable the pause-negotiation with the
egress port of the peer device. If the negotiate command is not used, pause-
negotiation is disabled. 40-gigabit Ethernet interfaces do not support pause-negotiation
monitor Enter the keyword monitor then the session-ID to enable mirror ow control frames on
the interface. The range is from 0 to 65535.
Defaults rx on tx o
Command Modes INTERFACE
Command History
This guide is platform-specic. For command information about other platforms, see the relevant Dell Networking
OS Command Line Reference Guide.
Version Description
9.11(0.0) Added support for monitor session.
9.10(0.1) Introduced on the S6010-ON and S4048T-ON.
9.10(0.0) Introduced on the S3148.
9.10(0.0) Introduced on the S6100–ON.
9.8(2.0) Introduced on the S3100 series.
9.8(1.0) Introduced on the Z9100–ON.
9.8(0.0P5) Introduced on the S4048-ON.
9.8(0.0P2) Introduced on the S3048-ON.
9.7(0.0) Introduced on the S6000-ON.
9.2(1.0) Introduced on the Z9500.
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