44CHAPTER 4: ADVANCED MANAGEMENT TASKS
Table 5 VLAN Features (continued)
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Ignore STP | No | Yes, in | Ignores the blocking Spanning Tree Protocol |
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| allClosed | (STP) mode for the ports of a designated VLAN. |
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| mode | (One instance of STP runs on the module, but |
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| you can disable it on a |
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| mode, only available in allClosed mode, is dis- |
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| abled by default. You select (on a |
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| basis), which VLANs ignore STP blocked ports. |
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| It is typically used for VLANs with router inter- |
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| faces that ignore the STP state. This mode |
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| allows routing over a port that is blocked by |
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| STP. |
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