24-port NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide
Understanding and Troubleshooting the Spanning Tree Protocol
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Disabled State
A port in the disabled state does not participate in frame
forwarding or STP. A port in the disabled state is virtually non-
operational.
A disabled port does the following:
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Discards packets received from the network segment to
which it is attached.
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Discards packets sent from another port on the switch
for forwarding.
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Does not add addresses to its forwarding database.
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Receives BPDUs, but does not direct them to the system
CPU.
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Does not receive BPDUs for transmission from the
system CPU.
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Receives and responds to network management messages.
