Setting The Bridge Hello Time - 3Com LANPLEX 6000 User Manual

Top-Level Menu
system
display
ethernet
mode
fddi
ipFragmentation
tokenring
ipxSnapTranslation
bridge
trFDDIMode
ip
addressThreshold
snmp
agingTime
analyzer
stpState
script
stpPriority
logout
stpMaxAge
stpHelloTime
stpForwardDelay
srBridgeNumber
port
packetFilter
Setting the Bridge
Hello Time
Hello time
recommended value
Top-Level Menu
system
display
ethernet
mode
fddi
ipFragmentation
tokenring
ipxSnapTranslation
bridge
trFDDIMode
ip
addressThreshold
snmp
agingTime
analyzer
stpState
script
stpPriority
logout
stpMaxAge
stpHelloTime
stpForwardDelay
srBridgeNumber
port
packetFilter
To configure the bridge max age:
1 From the top level of the Administration Console, enter:
bridge stpMaxAge
2 Enter the number(s) of the slot(s) or
bridges in the system.
3 Enter the bridge max age value. for each bridge you selected.
If your configuration was successful, you return to the previous menu. If the
configuration was not successful, you are notified that your changes failed,
and you can try to re-enter those changes.
Hello time is the period between the generation of configuration messages
by a root bridge. If the probability of losing configuration messages is high,
shortening the time makes the protocol more robust; however, lengthen-
ing the time lowers the overhead of the algorithm.
The recommended time is 2 seconds.
To configure the bridge hello time:
1 From the top level of the Administration Console, enter:
bridge stpHelloTime
2 Enter the number(s) of the slot(s) or
of all bridges in the system.
3 Enter the bridge hello time value for each bridge you selected.
If your configuration was successful, you return to the previous menu. If the
configuration was not successful, you are notified that your changes failed,
and you can try to re-enter those changes.
Administering STP Bridge Parameters
to configure the max age of all
all
if you want to configure hello time
all
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