Specifications

Disabling / Enabling and Naming Ports
Enterasys D-Series CLI Reference 6-7
Disabling / Enabling and Naming Ports
Purpose
Todisableandre‐enableoneormoreports,andtoassignanaliastoaport.Bydefault,allportsare
enabledatdevicestartup.Youmaywanttodisableportsforsecurityortotroubleshootnetwork
issues.Portsmayalsobeassignedanaliasforconvenience.
Commands
set port disable
Usethiscommandtoadministrativelydisableoneormoreports.Whenthiscommandis
executed,inadditiontodisablingthephysicalEthernetlink,theportwillnolongerlearnentries
intheforwardingdatabase.
Syntax
set port disable port-string
Parameters
Defaults
None.
Mode
Switchcommand,read‐write.
Example
Thisexampleshowshowtodisablefe.1.1:
D2(su)->set port disable fe.1.1
set port enable
Usethiscommandtoadministrativelyenableoneormoreports.
Syntax
set port enable port-string
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set port disable 6-7
set port enable 6-7
show port alias 6-8
set port alias 6-8
port‐string Specifiestheport(s)todisable.Foradetaileddescriptionofpossibleport‐
stringvalues,referto“PortStringSyntaxUsedintheCLI”onpage6‐1.