Customizing and Managing the BayStack Switches
General Configuration
The Spanning Tree General Configuration menu provides the ability to change the following parameters:
This field allows you to define how many seconds a learned MAC address can be inactive before it is “aged” or unlearned. This field is configurable in the range of 10 to 1,000,000 seconds with a default of 300 seconds.
This field allows you to determine which bridge within the network is designated as the root bridge (bridge with the highest priority). This field is configurable in the range of 0 to 65535 (where low number = high priority) with a default of 32768.
This field allows you to define how many seconds elapse between hello time messages that are sent from this switch to all other switches, if the Spanning Tree Protocol has defined this switch as the root switch. This field is configurable in the range of 1 to 65535 seconds with a default of 2 seconds.
This field allows you to define how many seconds the network waits to discard a hello time frame if a response is not received. This field is configurable from 1 to 65535 seconds with a default of 20 seconds.
This field allows you to define how many seconds the switch delays forwarding frames after a network topology change. The field value is configurable in the range of 1 to 65535 seconds with a default of
15 seconds.
Port Configuration
The Spanning Tree Port Configuration menu lists the port numbers, the port names, the port IDs, whether or not the port is enabled, and the current state of the port. To examine and change individual port statistics, enter the corresponding port number in the command line.
