3Com 2200 manual and following, Display bridge port information, Administer bridge port addresses

Configuration Tasks 1-5

Table 1-3	Bridging Commands (continued)
Task	Quick Command	For Details, See. . .

Configure Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) parameters for a bridge

Enable or disable STP and set the bridge priority, the maximum age of stored configuration message information, the period between the generation of messages by a root bridge, the amount of time a bridge spends in the listening and learning states, and the group address.

bridge stpState	page 10-7 to
bridge stpPriority	page 10-10
bridge stpMaxAge
bridge stpHelloTime
bridge stpForwardDelay
bridge stpGroupAddress

Display bridge port information

Display information about the bridge port, including STP configurations, in a summarized or detailed format.

bridge port summary	page 11-1
bridge port detail

Configure Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) parameters for a bridge port

Enable or disable STP on a bridge port, and set the bridge port path cost and port priority.

bridge port stpState bridge port stpCost bridge port stpPriority

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Set the multicast packet firewall threshold

bridge port multicastLimit page 11-7

Suppress multicast storms and limit the rate at which multicast packets are propagated by the system.

Administer bridge port addresses

bridge port address page 11-11

Administer the MAC address of stations connected to Ethernet and FDDI ports. This command accesses a menu from which you can list, add, remove, flush, and freeze bridge port addresses.

Use packet filters to restrict which packets are forwarded through a bridge port

bridge packetFilter

page 12-1 and following

Access a menu from which you can list packet filters, display a packet filter definition, create or edit a definition, load a definition onto the system, copy a definition, and assign or unassign a definition to a port.

Create address and port groups to use as filtering criteria

bridge packetFilter addressGroup bridge packetFilter portGroup

page 13-1 and following

Access a menu from which you can specify groups (either address groups or port groups) to use in a packet filter definition. From each menu, you can list, display, create, and delete groups. You can also add and remove address and ports to and from groups.