ZyXEL Communications VDSL SWITCH VES-1616F-3X User Manual page 105

Table 27 Spanning Tree Protocol > Configuration (continued)
LABEL
Max Age
Forwarding Delay
Port
Active
Priority
Path Cost
Apply
Cancel
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DESCRIPTION
This is the maximum time (in seconds) a switch can wait without receiving a BPDU
before attempting to reconfigure. All switch ports (except for designated ports)
should receive BPDUs at regular intervals. Any port that ages out STP information
(provided in the last BPDU) becomes the designated port for the attached LAN. If it
is a root port, a new root port is selected from among the switch ports attached to
the network. The allowed range is 6 to 40 seconds.
This is the maximum time (in seconds) a switch will wait before changing states.
This delay is required because every switch must receive information about
topology changes before it starts to forward frames. In addition, each port needs
time to listen for conflicting information that would make it return to a blocking
state; otherwise, temporary data loops might result. The allowed range is 4 to 30
seconds.
As a general rule: 2 * (Forward Delay - 1) >= Max Age >= 2 * (Hello Time + 1)
This field displays the port number.
Select this check box to activate STP on this port.
Configure the priority for each port here.
Priority decides which port should be disabled when more than one port forms a
loop in a switch. Ports with a higher priority numeric value are disabled first. The
allowed range is between 0 and 255 and the default value is 128.
Path cost is the cost of transmitting a frame on to a LAN through that port. It is
assigned according to the speed of the bridge. The slower the media, the higher
the cost - see Table 24 on page 101
Click Apply to save your changes back to the switch.
Click Cancel to begin configuring this screen afresh.
Chapter 10 Spanning Tree Protocol
for more information.
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