SMC Networks 10/100 manual Configuring the Switch

CONFIGURING THE SWITCH

•Path Cost – This parameter is used by the STP to determine the best path between devices. Therefore, lower values should be assigned to ports attached to faster media, and higher values assigned to ports with slower media. (Path cost takes precedence over port priority.)

-Full Range: 1-65535

-Recommended Range –

-Ethernet: 50-600

-Fast Ethernet: 10-6

-Gigabit Ethernet: 3-10

-Defaults –

-Ethernet – half duplex: 100; full duplex: 95; trunk: 90

-Fast Ethernet – half duplex: 19; full duplex: 18; trunk: 15

-Gigabit Ethernet – full duplex: 4; trunk: 3

•Fast Forwarding – You can enable this option if an interface is attached to a LAN segment that is at the end of a bridged LAN or to an end node. Since end-nodes cannot cause forwarding loops, they can pass directly through to the forwarding state. Fast Forwarding can achieve quicker convergence for end-node workstations and servers, and also overcome other STA related timeout problems. (Remember that Fast Forwarding should only be enabled for ports connected to an end-node device.)

-Default: disabled

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