Asante Technologies 6200 manual Configuring Switch Priority

Advanced Management

Setting	Description
Forward	Controls the number of seconds a bridge must wait
Delay	before it changes a link from a listening to a learning
	state and before it changes the link from a learning to a
	forwarding state.
	The default value is 15 seconds. (This means that after
	a link [or the entire switch] goes down and connectivity
	is re-established, the switch waits twice the amount of
	the Forward Delay time before it begins to forward
	traffic again.
	The range of permitted values is between 4 and 30
	seconds.
	Note: A shorter Forward Delay value enables the
	switch to recover a link more quickly but may reduce
	overall network stability. A longer Forward Delay value
	may prevent the switch from bringing up an unstable
	link. An unstable link can threaten overall network
	stability because each time the link changes between
	forwarding and non-forwarding states, the entire
	Spanning Tree topology must be recalculated.
Storm	The threshold for detecting the BC* storm in the
Threshold	network.
Storm	Controls the amount of time the switch sees the BC/
Duration	MC** traffic before it decides on the BC/MC storm.

*BC = Broadcast **MC= Multicast

Configuring Switch Priority

To configure switch priority:

1	Open the Spanning Tree Configuration Menu
	by typing s in the Configuration Menu.
2	Type p in the Spanning Tree Configuration
	Menu.
3	Enter the switch priority value.

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