Owner's Manual

116 | Chapter 5. Configuring Slots and Ports on a Switch
NETGEAR 8800 User Manual
On the NETGEAR 8806 switch, the XCM88S1 with XCM888F installed has eight 1 Gbps fiber
SFP-GBIC data ports
Configuring Ports on a Switch
Note: A port can belong to multiple virtual routers (VRs). For more
information on VRs, see Chapter 11, Virtual Routers.
This section describes the following topics of configuring ports on a switch:
• Port Numbering on page 116
• Enabling and Disabling Switch Ports on page 117
• Configuring Switch Port Speed and Duplex Setting on page 117
Port Numbering
XCM8800 runs on both stand-alone and modular switches, and the port numbering scheme
is slightly different on each.
On a NETGEAR 8800 switch, the port number is a combination of the slot number and the
port number. The nomenclature for the port number is as follows:
slot:port
For example, if an I/O module that has a total of four ports is installed in slot 2 of the chassis,
the following ports are valid:
• 2:1
• 2:2
• 2:3
• 2:4
You can also use wildcard combinations (*) to specify multiple modular slot and port
combinations. The following wildcard combinations are allowed:
• slot:*—Specifies all ports on a particular I/O module or stack node
• slot:x-slot:y—Specifies a contiguous series of ports on multiple I/O modules or stack
nodes
• slot:x-y—Specifies a contiguous series of ports on a particular I/O module or stack node
• slota:x-slotb:y—Specifies a contiguous series of ports that begin on one I/O module or
stack node and end on another I/O module or stack node