D-Link DES-3224 manual Root Bridge, Root Port

10/100 Auto Negotiation Switch User’s Guide

Root Bridge

Specifies the MAC address of the Root Bridge. The DES-3224 may or may not be the root bridge. The DES-3224 is the default root bridge.

Root Port

Specifies the preferred path to the Root Bridge. Only one path per bridge can exist. The default setting is none.

Table 7: User Selective STA parameters

STA parameters	Settings	Effects	Comment
Enable/Disable	Enable/ Disable	Participate in or	Enable in a SNMP
		remove from STA	network.
Bridge Priority	Lower the #, higher	Increases chance of	Avoid, if the switch is
	the priority	becoming the Root	used in workgroup
		Bridge	level of a large
			network
Hello Time	1 – 10 seconds	No effect, if not Root	Never set greater
		Bridge	than Max Age Time
Max Age Time	6 – 40 seconds	Compete for Root	Avoid low number for
		Bridge, if BPDU is not	unnecessary reset of
		received	Root Bridge
Forward Delay	4 – 30 seconds	High # delays the	Max Age < 2 x
		change in state	(Forward Delay - 1)
			Max Age > 2 x Hello
			Time + 1)
Port Level STA parameters
Enable/ Disable	Enable/ disable	Enable or disable	Disable a port for
		LAN segment	security or problem
			isolation
Port Priority	Lower the #, higher	Increases chance of
	the priority	becoming the Root
		Port

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