22 Contents18 Configuring Port Characteristics . . . . . . 477Port Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477What Physical Port Characteristics CanBe Configured? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477What is Link Dependency? . . . . . . . . . . . . 479What Interface Types are Supported? . . . . . . 481What is Interface Configuration Mode? . . . . . 481What Are the Green Ethernet Features? . . . . . 483Default Port Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485Configuring Port Characteristics (Web) . . . . . . . . 486Port Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486Link Dependency Configuration . . . . . . . . . 489Link Dependency Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . 491Port Green Ethernet Configuration . . . . . . . . 492Port Green Ethernet Statistics . . . . . . . . . . 493Port Green Ethernet LPI History . . . . . . . . . 495Configuring Port Characteristics (CLI) . . . . . . . . . 496Configuring Port Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496Configuring Link Dependencies . . . . . . . . . 497Configuring Green Features . . . . . . . . . . . 498Port Configuration Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500Configuring Port Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500Configuring a Link Dependency Groups . . . . . 50119 Configuring Port and SystemSecurity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503Port-based Security—IEEE 802.1X and PortMAC Locking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503IEEE 802.1X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504