Allied Telesis AT-S63 - Manual (Page 340)

Chapter 20: Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol
340 Section IV: Spanning Tree Protocols
Displaying the MSTP Port Status
To display MSTP port status, perform the following procedure:
1. From the Home page, select Monitoring.
The Monitoring System page is displayed with the General tab
selected by default, as shown in Figure 6 on page 42.
2. From the Monitoring menu, select the Layer 2 option.
The Monitoring Layer 2 page is displayed with the MAC Address tab
selected by default, as shown in Figure 27 on page 98.
3. Select the Spanning Tree tab.
The Monitoring Spanning Tree tab for the active protocol, MSTP, is
shown in Figure 140
4. Click a port in the switch and click Status. You can select more than
one port.
The MSTP Port Status - Port(s) page is shown in Figure 142.
Figure 142. MSTP Port Status - Port(s) Page
The MSTP Port Status page displays a table that contains the following
columns of information:
Port
The port number.
State
The MSTP state of the port. The possible states are:
Discarding - The port is discarding received packets and is not
submitting forwarded packets for transmission.
Learning - The port is enabled for receiving, but not forwarding
packets.
Forwarding - Normal operation.