2.Choose Port Parameters from the Spanning Tree Algorithm Parameters menu.
3.Select the port number that you wish to set parameters for.
4.The Protocol Parameters menu displays the current status of the port concerning the Spanning Tree Algorithm’s operation, and allows you to modify some of the parameters.
Figure 6-20. STAP Port Parameters
♦State Indicates the current state of the port. A port can have the
following states: Disabled, Blocking, Listening, Learning, Forwarding, and Broken. A broken state means that the link on the port has been broken because the port is malfunctioning. Blocking means that the port has been blocked because it is neither a root port nor a designated port. In STP, only root and designated ports are used.
♦Designated Root Indicates the MAC (Ethernet) address of the switch/bridge that is the STP designated root for the network.
♦Designated Cost Displays the path cost from this port to the designated root.
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