Asante Technologies 6000 Series Field Description Bridge Maximum, Age, Bridge Hello Time, Delay

	Spanning
Field	Description
Bridge Maximum	Configurable field; the maximum permissible age, in
Age	seconds, provided by the current root bridge for
	Spanning Tree configuration information to remain
	active on the selected bridge.
	When the time-span expires and the bridge has not
	received any BPDUs, it discards the current Spanning
	Tree information and initiates a new round of Span-
	ning Tree configuration.
	The recommended IEEE 802.1d time is 20s (twenty
	seconds).
Bridge Hello Time	Configurable field; the amount of time, in seconds,
	provided by the current root bridge between trans-
	missions of configuration BPDUs. This timer works
	with the Spanning Tree Hold Time, which should be
	greater than the Hello Time.
	If it is smaller, the Spanning Tree algorithm responds
	more quickly to configuration changes, resulting in
	increased network traffic.
	The recommended IEEE 802.1d time is 2s (two sec-
	onds).
Bridge Forward	Configurable field; the delay time, in seconds, pro-
Delay	vided by the current root bridge before a bridge starts
	forwarding data packets.
	The recommended IEEE 802.1d time is 15s (15 sec-
	onds).
Time Since Topol-	Read-only field; displays the length of time since the
ogy Change	topology was changed.
Number Topology	Read-only field; displays the number of topology
Changes	changes that have occurred.

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