F5 VIPRION 2400 Platform Manual

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Viewing the status of all interfacesYou can use tmsh to view the status of all interfaces on the platform.1. From the system prompt, type the following to open tmsh:tmshThe following prompt displays: (tmos)#.2. Type the following to navigate to the network module:netThe following prompt displays: (tmos.net)#.3. Use the following syntax to display the current status of all interfaces:show interfaceThe following is an example of the output you may see when you issue this command:------------------------------------------------------------Net::InterfaceName Status Bits Bits Errs Errs Drops Drops ColliIn Out In Out In Out sions------------------------------------------------------------1.1 down 0 0 0 0 0 0 01.2 up 191.4K 0 0 0 374 0 01.3 down 0 0 0 0 0 0 01.4 up 22.5K 0 0 0 44 0 02.1 miss 0 0 0 0 0 0 02.2 miss 0 0 0 0 0 0 0mgmt up 43.2G 160.0G 0 0 0 0 0About interface media type and duplex modeAll interfaces on the VIPRION 2400 system default to auto-negotiate speed and duplex settings. Werecommend that you also configure any network equipment that you plan to use with the VIPRION 2400system to auto-negotiate speed and duplex settings. If you connect the VIPRION 2400 system to networkdevices with forced speed and duplex settings, you must force the speed and duplex settings of the systemto match the settings of the other network device.Important: If the VIPRION 2400 system is attempting to auto-negotiate interface settings with aninterface that has the speed and duplex settings forced, you will experience severe performancedegradation.By default, the media type on interfaces is set to automatically detect speed and duplex settings, but youcan specify a media type. Use the following syntax to set the media type:tmsh modify net interface media | autoIf the media type does not accept the duplex mode setting, a message indicates this. If media type is set toauto, or if the interface does not accept the duplex mode setting, the duplex setting is not saved to the/config/bigip_base.conf file.Important: If you manually configure the platform to use specific speed and duplex settings oninterfaces, Auto MDI/MDIX functionality is turned off by default. Additionally, when an interface isset manually, it functions as a data terminal equipment (DTE) port. This means that crossover cablesare required to connect to other DTE devices (for example, servers), and straight-through cables arerequired for connecting to data communications equipment (DCE) devices (for example, switches or18The VIPRION 2400 platform