SMC Networks 8700S-130, Management Manual

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ONFIGURING THE
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WITCH
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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.
• Trunk – Indicates if a port is a member of a trunk.
(STA Port Configuration only)
The following interface attributes can be configured:
•
Spanning Tree – Enables/disables STA on this interface.
(Default: Enabled).
• Priority – Defines the priority used for this port in the Spanning Tree
Algorithm. If the path cost for all ports on a switch are the same, the
port with the highest priority (i.e., lowest value) will be configured as
an active link in the Spanning Tree. This makes a port with higher
priority less likely to be blocked if the Spanning Tree Algorithm is
detecting network loops. Where more than one port is assigned the
highest priority, the port with lowest numeric identifier will be enabled.
- Default: 128
- Range: 0-240, in steps of 16
• Admin Path Cost – This parameter is used by the STA to determine
the best path between devices. Therefore, lower values should be
assigned to ports attached to faster media, and higher values assigned
to ports with slower media. (Path cost takes precedence over port
priority.) Note that when the Path Cost Method is set to short (page
3-63), the maximum path cost is 65,535.
• Range –
- Ethernet: 200,000-20,000,000
- Fast Ethernet: 20,000-2,000,000
- Gigabit Ethernet: 2,000-200,000