Configuring The Spanning Tree Protocol - HP ProCurve Secure 7000dl Series Basic Management And Configuration Manual

Using the Web Browser Interface for Basic Configuration Tasks
Bridging
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Figure 14-58. Viewing the Bridge Table
A bridge group on ProCurve Secure Router listens for frames from connected
hosts. It stores the frame's source MAC address with the interface on which
the frame arrived in a bridge table. The bridge will then only send frames
through the interface that connects to the host to which the frames are
destined, rather than flood the frames through all interfaces.
You can view the bridge table at the bottom of the window. This table includes
the MAC addresses of connected hosts with their forwarding interface. For
example, in Figure 14-58 the router knows to forward frames destined to
00:01:03:20:C0:F9 through the Ethernet 0/2 interface.
You can manually add a host by entering its MAC address in the corresponding
fields of the MAC Forwarding Entries window. Select the forwarding inter-
face from the Interface pull-down menu.

Configuring the Spanning Tree Protocol

Typically, RSTP will run on your WAN without any further configurations.
However, you can:
view information about the spanning tree
configure the router to run the legacy version, STP, rather than RSTP
change the router's bridge priority
alter spanning tree timers
configure properties for individual interfaces