IBM ADSL Bridge/ Router Heritage - Manual (Page 79)

7-14 Command Sets for Command Line Interface
16. spanning port <number> priority
Syntax:
spanning port <number> priority [<portpriority>]
Description:
Reads or sets the priority of the port. The priority may be any value
between 0 and 255. The priority is used in conjunction with the
pathcost to determine the best root to the root bridge. The higher the
priority number, the less significant, in protocol terms, the port. The
port priority may also be changed by SNMP command.
Configuration saving saves this information. By default a port has a
priority of 128.
Example:
DSL bridge> spanning port 1 priority ;
Displays the
priority for port 1
on the bridge
17. spanning priority
Syntax:
spanning priority [<bridgepriority>]
Description:
Reads or sets the priority of the bridge. The priority may be any value
in the range 0 to 65535. The higher the priority number, the less
significant, in protocol terms, the bridge. Where two bridges have the
same priority, their MAC address is compared and the smaller MAC
address is treated as more significant. The priority of the bridge may
be changed by SNMP command.
Configuration saving saves this information. By default the bridge is
assigned a priority of 32768.
Example:
DSL bridge> spanning priority 4000 ;
Sets the bridge
priority to 4000.