User`s guide

Viewing Chassis Information 2-5
The FN100 Chassis View
• Virtual Switching..., which launches the FN100 Virtual Switching window,
allowing you to refine your network and control bandwidth usage by
assigning the FN100’s ports to any of four available virtual switches. See
Chapter 3, FN100 Virtual Switching, for details.
• P
ort Trunking..., which allows you to use the FN100 Port Trunking window to
create trunk groups, letting you increase aggregate bandwidth when two or
more switches are connected. See Chapter 4, Using FN100 Trunking, for
details.
• W
orkgroups..., which invokes a window that lets you configure work groups
by specifying a subset of device ports and the type(s) of packets (multicast,
unicast, or both) that are to be forwarded by those ports, thereby allowing you
to restrict multicast traffic from being propagated through every bridge port
on your device. See Chapter 5, Workgroup Configuration, for details.
• B
ridge Status..., which opens a window that provides an overview of bridging
information for each interface, and allows you to access all other bridge-
related options. Refer to the bridging chapter in the Tools Guide for details.
• Ex
it, which closes the FN100 Chassis View window.
The Port Status Menu
The Port Status Menu allows you to select the status information that will be
displayed in the port text boxes in the Chassis View window:
• S
tatus allows you to select one of three status type displays: Bridge, Admin, or
Operator.
• L
oad will display the portion of network load processed per polling interval
by each interface as a percentage of the theoretical maximum load (10 or 100
Mbits/sec).
• E
rrors allows you to display the number of errors detected per polling interval
by each interface as a percentage of the total number of valid packets
processed by the interface.
• I/F M
apping will display the interface (if) index associated with each port on
your FN100 switch.
• I/F Sp
eed will display the speed (100 Mbits/sec) of the network segment
attached to each port. The speed of the network management port will be
displayed in Kbits/sec.
• I/F T
ype will display the interface type of each port in the FN100 — i.e., Eth
(ethernet-csmacd) for the bridging interfaces, and PPP for the network
management port.
• B
ridge Type refers to the type of bridging in effect, which will always be TP
(transparent) on an FN100.
For more information on the port display options available via this menu, see The
FN100 Port Status Displays, later in this chapter.