Cabletron Systems NB30 manual Enabling and Disabling Bridging

Models: NB30

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The NB-30 Bridge Chassis View

2.Enter the new date in an mm/dd/yyyy format, either by highlighting the field you wish to change and using the up and down arrow buttons, or by simply entering the new value in the appropriate field.

3.Click on OK to save the changes, or on Cancel to exit without changes.

NOTE

In accordance with Year 2000 compliance requirements, SPECTRUM Element Manager now displays and allows you to set all dates with four-digit year values.

Enabling and Disabling Bridging

When you disable a bridge, you disconnect all its port networks from the bridge entirely. Its bridge ports do not forward any packets, nor do they participate in Spanning Tree operations. Nodes connected to the networks can still communicate with each other, but they canÕt communicate with the bridge and other networks connected to the bridge. When you enable bridge ports, they move from the Disabled state through the Learning and Listening states to the Forwarding or Blocking state (as determined by Spanning Tree).

When you disable bridging across the device, you simultaneously disable bridging at all ports supported by the device.

To enable or disable bridging at the NB-30:

1.Click on the Board Index (1) on the logical device display. A menu will appear.

2.Click on Enable Bridge to restart bridging at the device level, or Disable Bridge to halt bridging across the entire device.

Managing the Bridge

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Cabletron Systems NB30 manual Enabling and Disabling Bridging