D-Link DES-3624 manual Configure Filtering and Forwarding Table, STP Custom Settings screen

Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide

Figure 6-19. STP Custom Settings screen

Items in the above window are described as follows:

♦STP State Sets the Spanning Tree Protocol on a particular port to Enabled or Disabled.

♦Cost Defines the cost for the connection.

♦Priority Port Priority is a read-write object that can be set from 0 to 255. This is the priority number of the port. The higher the port priority, the more chance the bridge has of becoming the root port. Zero is the highest priority.

Note: If a port is a member of a trunk group but is not the anchor, the items shown in the above table will be read-only and the values will be the same as those for the anchor port.

Configure Filtering and Forwarding Table

When a packet hits the Switch, it looks in the filtering and forwarding tables to decide what to do with the packet; either to filter it off the network, or to forward it through the port on which its destination lies.

Dynamic Filtering and Static Filtering are among the two important features of the Custom Filtering Table. They are defined here briefly as follows. Dynamic Filtering is defined when a dynamic entry is created by the Learning Process as a result of observation of network traffic in the Filtering Database. Static Filtering

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