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Chapter 8. Spanning Tree
Controls whether the bridge should enable automatic edge detection on the
bridge port. This allows operEdge to be derived from whether BPDU's are
received on the port or not.
Restricted Role:
If enabled, causes the port not to be selected as Root Port for the CIST or any
MSTI, even if it has the best spanning tree priority vector. Such a port will be
selected as an Alternate Port after the Root Port has been selected. If set, it can
cause lack of spanning tree connectivity. It can be set by a network
administrator to prevent bridges external to a core region of the network
influence the spanning tree active topology, possibly because those bridges are
not under the full control of the administrator. This feature is also known as
Root Guard.
Restricted TCN:
If enabled, causes the port not to propagate received topology change
notifications and topology changes to other ports. If set it can cause temporary
loss of connectivity after changes in a spanning tree's active topology as a result
of persistently incorrect learned station location information. It is set by a
network administrator to prevent bridges external to a core region of the
network, causing address flushing in that region, possibly because those
bridges are not under the full control of the administrator or the physical link
state of the attached LANs transits frequently.
BPDU Guard:
If enabled, causes the port to disable itself upon receiving valid BPDU's.
Contrary to the similar bridge setting, the port Edge status does not affect this
setting. A port entering error-disabled state due to this setting is subject to the
bridge Port Error Recovery setting as well.
Point to Point
Controls whether the port connects to a point-to-point LAN rather than to a
shared medium. This can be automatically determined, or forced either true or
false. Transition to the forwarding state is faster for point-to-point LANs than
for shared media.
Buttons
Apply:
Click to save changes.
Reset:
Click to undo any changes made locally and revert to previously saved values.
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