162CHAPTER 11: CONFIGURING SPANNING TREE
assigned to ports attached to faster media, and higher values assigned to ports with slower media.
Path cost takes precedence over port priority.
■Priority — Defines the priority value of the port. The priority value influences the port choice when a bridge has two ports connected in a loop. The priority value is between
If the path cost for all ports on a switch are the same, the port with the highest priority (that is, lowest value) will be configured as an active link in the spanning tree.
Where more than one port is assigned the highest priority, the port with lowest numeric identifier will be enabled.
2Select the ports to be defined
3Define the fields.
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. Spanning Tree is modified on the port, and the device is updated.
