Compex Technologies WPE54 manual Enabling STP Setup, Priority, Hello Time, Forwarding Delay

Chapter 5 Further Configuration

Enabling STP Setup

Click on STP Setup from the CONFIGURATION menu

Select Enable from the STP State radio button.

STP State:

Activate Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) function makes your network more resilient to link failure and also provides a protection from loop.

Priority:

Specify the configurable value that is appended as the most significant portion of a AP.

This value specifies which access point acts as the central reference point, or Root AP, for the STP system — the lower the priority value, the more likely the access point is to become the Root AP. If the priority values are all the same, then the system will search for the smallest MAC address of the access point and set it as the Root AP.

Hello Time:

Specify the time in seconds that elapses between the configuration messages (also known as Hello BPDUs) generated by an AP that assumes itself to be the Root AP.

Forwarding Delay:

Specify the time in seconds that an AP spends in the listening and learning states, that is, listening for configuration messages.

Max Aging Time:

Specify the maximum age in seconds at which the stored configuration message information is judged to be too old and is discarded.

If an AP does not receive a configuration message after the Max Aging Time, the system will assume that the link between itself and the Root AP has gone down and will then reconfigures the network to cater for the change.

Click on the Apply button.

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