Linksys Etherfast EF1704 User Manual page 23

• High/Medium/Low Priority - This Switch supports Quality of Service
(QoS) by using three priority queues, with Weighted Fair Queuing for each
port.
• Aging Time - Time-out period in seconds for aging out dynamically
learned forwarding information. Range varies from 10-415 seconds.
Select Apply to make changes. Select OK to return to the previous panel.
Select Cancel to cancel any changes.
Spanning Tree Port Configuration
The Spanning Tree Port Configuration screen, shown in Figure 6-29, allows
you to configure spanning tree port settings.
• Port - This shows the number of the port to be configured.
• Type - Shows port type as 100TX for 10Base-T/100Base-TX, or
1000T for 1000Base-T.
• Priority - Defines the priority for the use of a port in the STA algorithm.
If the path cost for all ports on a switch are the same, the port with the
highest priority (that is, lowest value) will be configured as an active link in
the Spanning Tree. When more than one port is assigned the highest priori-
ty, the port with the lowest numeric identifier will be enabled. The range is
0-255.
• Cost - This parameter is used by the STA algorithm to determine the best
path between devices. Therefore, lower values should be assigned to
ports attached to faster media, and higher values assigned to ports with
slower media. (This takes precedence over port priority.)
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Figure 6-29
Series EtherFast Layer 3 Management 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch
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• Fast Forwarding - This parameter is used to enable/disable the Fast
Spanning Tree mode for the selected port.
Select Apply to make changes. Select OK to return to the previous panel.
Select Cancel to cancel any changes. Select Prev Page to view the previous
page. Select Next Page to view the next page.
VLAN Menu
The VLAN Menu, shown in Figure 6-30, is used to assign any port on the
Switch to any of up to 256 VLAN groups. By using IEEE 802.1Q compliant
VLANs, you can organize any group of network nodes into separate broadcast
domains, confining broadcast traffic to the originating group. This also pro-
vides a more secure and cleaner network environment.
• VLAN Port Configuration - Configures GARP, the default VLAN identi-
fier, default port priority, VLAN tagging on the attached link, GVRP and
GMRP status, and filtering of incoming frames for VLAN groups a specif-
ic port does not belong to.
• VLAN Table Configuration - Use this screen to create a new VLAN or
modify the settings for an existing VLAN.
• Reset Address Table Mode - Opens the Reset Address Table Mode screen
Select OK to return to the previous panel.
Figure 6-30
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