3Com PathBuilder S200 Series Owner's Manual page 132

Bridge Statistics
Description of
Screen Terms
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This table describes Detailed Bridge Link Statistics terms.
Term
Bridge Link Status Following are the possible states:
Bridge Type Configured value of Bridge Type parameter of the Bridge
Link.
ST Status Spanning Tree state of a bridge link. This state controls what
action a link takes on reception of a source route Spanning
Tree Explorer Frame.
Bridge Link Type
Last Stat Reset Date and time of the last statistics reset. Resetting the link
statistics does not clear the last call information from the port
statistics screens. This information is only cleared by a node
boot.
Max Frame Size The maximum size of the frame that this bridge link is
configured to send and receive.
Max Hop Count The maximum number of routing hops allowed in a source
routed frame.
Local Ring Number The ring number to which this bridge is locally attached.
Next Ring Number The next Ring Number of the LAN to which the bridge route
is bridging. This is the ring number to which the 3Com
remote bridge is attached.
Description
• Not Configured: This record is not configured.
• No LAN Port: No physical LAN Port.
• Active: Link is operational.
• Congestion: Link is operational but congested.
• Disabled: Disabled by Bridge Link disable command.
• SW Disables: Disabled by the operating software
because of internal error.
• Inactive: Waiting to be Active after restart.
• STPE Control = MAN: The configured value of the
STPE state parameter is displayed.
• STPE Control = AUTO: STPE view of the link's current
state is displayed.
• Disabled: LAN or WAN connection is inactive.
• Blocking: The STE frames are blocked on this Bridge
Link.
• Listening: The STE frames are blocked. Learning the
topology from STPE PDUs.
• Forwarding: The STE frames can be forwarded on this
bridge link.
• LAN: If Bridge Link number is 1.
• WAN: If Bridge Link number is 5 to 36.
Bridging