flow-control

Enables or disables flow control and flow control negotiation, and advertises flow control.
Syntax
flow-control[both|generate-only|honor-only]
no flow-control[both|generate-only|honor-only]
Command Default

Flow control is enabled.

Parameters
both

Flow control in PAUSE generation and honoring mode.

generate-only

Flow control in PAUSE generation only mode.

honor-only
Flow control in PAUSE honoring (Default) mode.
Modes

Global configuration mode

Interface configuration mode

Usage Guidelines

You can configure the store-and- forward command in global configuration mode to enable the store-and-forward method for packet-forwarding.

By default, when flow control is enabled globally and auto-negotiation is on, flow control is enabled and advertised on 10/100/1000M ports. If auto-negotiation is off or if the port speed was configured manually, flow control is neither negotiated with nor advertised to the peer.

Note: Enabling only port auto-negotiation does not enable flow control negotiation. You must use the flow-controlneg-on command to enable flow-control negotiation.

The no form of the command disables flow control.

Examples

The following example disables flow control globally. 

device(config)# no flow-control

The following example enables flow control on ethernet ports 1/1/11 to 1/1/15. 

device(config)# interface ethernet 1/1/11 to 1/1/15
device(config-mif-1/1/11-1/1/15)# flow-control

The following example disables flow control on ethernet port 1/1/9. 

device(config)# interface ethernet 1/1/9
device(config-if-e1000-1/1/9)# no flow-control
History
Release version Command history
08.0.20 This command was modified. Enabling only auto-negotiation does not enable flow-control negotiation.
Parent topic: Commands D through H