This indicates the operational status of the Port. Writing a partition(2) will partition the port indefinitely and enabled(1) will enable the port. If a timed partition is desired, then writing timedPartition(4) to this object at the same time that a time value is supplied in s3EnetCommonPortPartTime is required. Timed partitions will not survive across a reset. In this case the port will go to the partition(2) state. The value latSecPartition(5) is returned when the port has been automatically partitioned by the LattisSecure Host Module because of a security violation. The value autoPartition(3) is returned when the port has been automatically partitioned by the repeater using the 802.3 repeater auto-partition function. The agent will not allow this object to be set to autoPartition(3) or latSecPartition(5) using an SNMP request. Note that the value timedPartition(4) is returned only when the board is timed partitioned by this NMM.