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Network Administration: Spanning Tree and LAG
FILE LOCATION: C:\Users\gina\Desktop\Checkout_new\Dell Astute\User
Guide\Dell_Astute_Network_Admin_STP.fm
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Enable
— Fast Link is enabled.
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Disable
— Fast Link is disabled.
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Auto
— Fast Link mode is enabled a few seconds after the
interface becomes active.
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Point-to-Point Admin Status
— Select if a point-to-point links is
established, or permits the device to establish a point-to-point link.
The possible options are:
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Enabled
— Enables the device to establish a point-to-point link,
or specifies for the device to automatically establish a point-to-
point link. To establish communications over a point-to-point
link, the originating PPP first sends Link Control Protocol (LCP)
packets to configure and test the data link. After a link is
established and optional facilities are negotiated as needed by the
LCP, the originating PPP sends
Network Control Protocols (NCP)
packets to select and configure one or more network layer
protocols. When each of the chosen network layer protocols has
been configured, packets from each network layer protocol can be
sent over the link. The link remains configured for
communications until explicit LCP or NCP packets close the link,
or until some external event occurs. This is the actual switch port
link type. It may differ from the administrative state.
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Disabled
— Disables point-to-point link.
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Auto
— The device automatically establishes a point-to-point
link.
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Point-to-Point Operational Status
— Displays the Point-to-Point
operating state.
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Active Protocol Migration Test
— Check to run a Protocol Migration
test. This discovers whether the link partner using STP still exists, and
if so whether it has migrated to RSTP or MSTP. If it still exists as an
STP link, the device continues to communicate with it by using STP.
Otherwise, if it has been migrated to RSTP or MSTP, the device
communicates with it using RSTP or MSTP, respectively.
