Dell PowerConnect 3248 Manual page 30

30 Addendum to the 32 48 and 5 224 User 's Guides
Advanced Bridge Settings
From the Advanced Bridge Settings page, under Attributes, you can
configure the following parameters:
• Path Cost Method — The path cost is used to determine the best
path between devices. The path cost method is used to determine the
range of values that can be assigned to each interface.
– Long: Specifies 32-bit based values that range from 1-200,000,000.
– Short: Specifies 16-bit based values that range from 1-65535.
(This is the default.)
• Transmission Limit — The maximum transmission rate for BPDUs is
specified by setting the minimum interval between the transmission of
consecutive protocol messages. (Range: 1-10; Default: 3)
To save any changes you make in this page, click Apply Changes. If you do
not want to save the changes, click Refresh.
The following figure is representative of PowerConnect 3248 and 5224.