| Description | Ports operating in the manual role do not have their
configuration affected by peer devices or by internal
propagation of configuration. These ports will advertise
their configuration to their peer if DCBX is enabled
on that port.
Auto-up: Advertises a configuration, but is also willing
to accept a configuration from the link-partner and
propagate it internally to the auto-downstream ports
as well as receive configuration propagated internally
by other auto-upstream ports.
Auto-down: Advertises a configuration but is not willing
to accept one from the link partner. However, the port
will accept a configuration propagated internally by the
configuration source.
Configuration Source:In this role, the port has been
manually selected to be the configuration source.
Configuration received over this port is propagated
to the other auto-configuration ports. |