Chapter 7
| Spanning Tree Algorithm
Displaying Interface Settings for STA
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Displaying Interface Settings for STA
Use the Spanning Tree > STA (Configure Interface - Show Information) page to
display the current status of ports or trunks in the Spanning Tree.
Parameters
These parameters are displayed:
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Spanning Tree
– Shows if STA has been enabled on this interface.
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BPDU Flooding
– Shows if BPDUs will be flooded to other ports when
spanning tree is disabled globally on the switch or disabled on a specific port.
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STA Status
– Displays current state of this port within the Spanning Tree:
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Discarding
- Port receives STA configuration messages, but does not
forward packets.
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Learning
- Port has transmitted configuration messages for an interval set
by the Forward Delay parameter without receiving contradictory
information. Port address table is cleared, and the port begins learning
addresses.
■
Forwarding
- Port forwards packets, and continues learning addresses.
The rules defining port status are:
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A port on a network segment with no other STA compliant bridging device
is always forwarding.
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If two ports of a switch are connected to the same segment and there is no
other STA device attached to this segment, the port with the smaller ID
forwards packets and the other is discarding.
■
All ports are discarding when the switch is booted, then some of them
change state to learning, and then to forwarding.
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Forward Transitions
– The number of times this port has transitioned from the
Learning state to the Forwarding state.
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Designated Cost
– The cost for a packet to travel from this port to the root in
the current Spanning Tree configuration. The slower the media, the higher the
cost.
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Designated Bridge
– The bridge priority and MAC address of the device
through which this port must communicate to reach the root of the Spanning
Tree.
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Designated Port
– The port priority and number of the port on the designated
bridging device through which this switch must communicate with the root of
the Spanning Tree.
Summary of Contents for GTL-2881
Page 34: ...Section I Getting Started 34 ...
Page 48: ...Section II Web Configuration 48 Unicast Routing on page 651 ...
Page 151: ...Chapter 4 Interface Configuration VLAN Trunking 151 Figure 69 Configuring VLAN Trunking ...
Page 152: ...Chapter 4 Interface Configuration VLAN Trunking 152 ...
Page 230: ...Chapter 8 Congestion Control Automatic Traffic Control 230 ...
Page 596: ...Chapter 14 Multicast Filtering Multicast VLAN Registration for IPv6 596 ...
Page 620: ...Chapter 15 IP Configuration Setting the Switch s IP Address IP Version 6 620 ...
Page 672: ...Section III Appendices 672 ...
Page 678: ...Appendix A Software Specifications Management Information Bases 678 ...
Page 688: ...Appendix C License Statement GPL Code Statement Notification of Compliance 688 ...
Page 696: ...Glossary 696 ...
Page 706: ...GTL 2881 GTL 2882 E112016 ST R01 ...