Supermicro SSE-F3548S/SSE-F3548SR Configuration User’s Guide
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Follow the steps below to change the forwarding time.
Step Command
Description
Step 1 configure terminal
Enters the configuration mode
Step 2 To configure the max age time:
spanning-tree forward-time<time-value>
Configures the switch spanning tree
max age time.
time-value – Spanning tree forward
time may be from 4 to 30 seconds.
The default forwarding time is 15
seconds.
Step 3 end
Exits the configuration mode.
Step 4 show spanning-tree bridge forward-time
Displays the spanning tree forward
time.
Step 5 write startup-config
Optional step – saves this spanning tree
configuration to be part of startup
configuration.
The “no spanning-tree forward-time” command resets the spanning tree forwarding time to
the default value of 15.
The example below shows how to configure the spanning tree forward time.
Configure the forwarding time as 12 seconds.
SMIS# configure terminal
SMIS(config)# spanning-tree forward-time 12
SMIS(config)# end
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Max Hops
MSTP uses a hop count to decide the validity of BPDU messages. The root switch sends a BPDU with a
max hops count. Every switch decrements the hops count when forwarding the BPDU. When this hops
count reaches zero, the switch discards the BPDU message.
The default max hops count is 20.
Follow the steps below to change the max hops.
Step Command
Description
Step 1 configure terminal
Enters the configuration mode
Step 2 To configure the max age time:
Configures the switch MSTP max hops