Cabletron Systems 9H42X-XX

Bridging

5-4 The Bridge Status Window

Figure 5-1. The Bridge Status Window

The Bridge Status window provides the following information for each individual

bridging interface; the and buttons allow you to scroll the display

to show all available bridge port interfaces.

Up Time

At the top of the Bridge Status window, you can see the time period (in a days,

hours, minutes, seconds format) that has elapsed since the 9H42x-xx module was

last reset or initialized.

Spanning Tree State

Indicates the state of bridging over each port interface. Note that this state (and its

corresponding color-code) will also be reﬂected on the Bridge port status display

in the Module View window. Possible bridge states and their corresponding

colors are:

•Forwarding (green) — the port is on line, and is configured by Spanning Tree

Algorithm to forward frames to and from its attached network.

•Disabled (blue) — bridging at the port has been disabled by management; no

trafﬁc can be received or forwarded, including conﬁguration information for

the bridged topology.

•Listening (magenta) — this bridge port is not adding information to the

Filtering Database. The port is monitoring Bridge Protocol Data Unit (BPDU)

traffic while preparing to move to the Forwarding state.