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4.6.3 STP Port Setting

This page allows you to configure per port STP settings. The STP Port Setting screens in

Figure 4-6-6

&

Figure 4-6-7

appear.

Figure 4-6-6 :

STP Port Configuration Page Screenshot

The page includes the following fields:

Object

Description

Port Select

Select port number for this drop down list.

External Cost (0 =

Auto)

Controls the path cost incurred by the port. The Auto setting will set the path cost

as appropriate by the physical link speed, using the 802.1D recommended

values. Using the Specific setting, a user-defined value can be entered. The path

cost is used when establishing the active topology of the network. Lower path

cost ports are chosen as forwarding ports in favor of higher path cost ports. Valid

values are in the range 1 to 200000000.

Edge Port

Controls whether the operEdge flag should start as beeing set or cleared. (The

initial operEdge state when a port is initialized).

BPDU Filter

Control whether a port explicitly configured as Edge will transmit and receive

BPDUs.

BPDU Guard

Control whether a port explicitly configured as Edge will disable itself upon

reception of a BPDU. The port will enter the error-disabled state, and will be

removed from the active topology.

Controls whether the port connects to a point-to-point LAN rather than a shared

medium. This can be automatically determined, or forced either true or false.

Transition to the forwarding state is faster for point-to-point LANs than for shared

media.

(This applies to physical ports only. Aggregations are always forced Point2Point).

P2P MAC

If at any time the switch detects STP BPDUs, including Configuration or Topology

Change Notification BPDUs, it will automatically set the selected interface to

forced STP-compatible mode. However, you can also use the Protocol Migration

button to manually re-check the appropriate BPDU format (RSTP or

STP-compatible) to send on the selected interfaces.

Migrate

(Default: Disabled)

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