Asante Technologies 9000 manual How It Works, Enabling and Disabling STP, Advanced Management

Type t to toggle STP to enabled or disabled.

Type c to open the Configuration Menu.

Advanced Management

How It Works

All bridges on the network communicate with each other using special packets called Bridge Protocol Data Units (BPDUs). The information exchanged in the BPDUs enables bridges on the network to:

❑Elect a single bridge to be the Root Bridge.

❑Calculate the shortest path from each bridge to the root.

❑Select a Designated Bridge on each segment which lies closest to the root, and will forward traffic to the root.

❑Select a port on each bridge to forward traffic to the root.

❑Select the ports on each bridge which will forward traffic, and place the redundant ports in blocking state.

Enabling and Disabling STP

The IntraChassis 9000 is shipped with Spanning Tree enabled on all ports. It can be manually enabled or disabled following the instructions below

To enable or disable STP on your IntraChassis 9000, use the following procedure.

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2 Open the Spanning Tree Configuration Menu by typing s in the Configuration Menu. See Figure 5-1.

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4 If you select disabled, you are prompted to confirm the change.

The STP status is changed. The status is displayed near the top of the Spanning Tree Configuration menu.

Configuring Spanning Tree Parameters

To view the Spanning Tree Configuration menu, as shown in Figure 5-1, type s in the Configuration menu.

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