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Defining STP Settings for SSR Bridging
You can define global STP settings that the SSR uses for bridging. To define global STP
settings:
1.
Start Configuration Expert if you have not already done so.
2.
Open the configuration file you want to modify and then double-click that file's
Bridging Configuration object.
3.
Double-click the Spanning Tree Protocol object.
4.
In the list of STP objects that appears, select the Global STP Settings object.
An STP Global Settings dialog box similar to the following appears:
5.
In the Bridging Priority box, enter the STP bridging priority for the SSR.
The bridging priority determines which bridge functions as the root bridge. You can
specify a number from 0 to 65535. The bridge assigned the lowest value is the root
bridge. The default is 32768.
6.
In the Hello-time box, enter the number of seconds that you want to elapse between
the BPDUs STP sends.
Specify a number from 1to 10. The default is 2.
7.
In the Msg Max Age box, enter the number of seconds you want to specify for the
SSR's maximum age.
CoreWatch User's Manual
Figure 30. STP Global Settings dialog box
Chapter 6: Configuring SSR Bridging
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