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The properties of the various port states are shown in the table below.
The sequence of the five port states defined in the Spanning Tree Protocol cannot be as-
signed freely. The following diagram illustrates the possible sequence of the port states.
Figure 5-10 Sequence of the possible port states in STP
After device startup and, if necessary, also during topology modification, a port runs through
the states in the following order:
Learning
®
Forwarding
or
Disabled
®
Blocking/Discarding
Due to the edge property of ports, they switch to “Forwarding” immediately. In the second
case, the port generates a data path interruption in order to suppress loops accordingly.
5.2.4.3 Fast forwarding
If the Spanning Tree Protocol is deactivated at a port, the corresponding port is in “Fast For-
warding” mode.
A fast forwarding port
–
Ignores all BPDUs that are received at this port.
– Does not send any BPDUs.
– Switches to the “Forwarding” state immediately after establishing the data link. Termi-
nation devices connected to this port can be accessed immediately.
“Port STP Status” in WBM on the “STP Port Configuration” page must be set to “Disabled”
to activate fast forwarding.
Table 5-1 Properties of the port states
Receiving and evaluating
BPDUs (learning the
topology)
Learning the MAC
addresses of connected
devices and creating the
switching table
Forwarding data packets
(normal switching function)
Disabled
Blocking/Discarding
X
Learning X X
Forwarding X X X
At least one port in the “Forwarding” state is at a data path between two spanning tree
switches so that the data path can be integrated into the network.