D-Link DGS-3100 Field Role, Description, Define the Internal Path Cost and Priority fields

DGS-3100 Series Gigabit Stackable Managed Switch User Manual

Field

Role

Description

another port for forwarding

Disabled — Disables the port for the specific instance.

Indicates the port role assigned by the STP algorithm to provide to STP paths. The possible field values are:

Enabled — Enables the port for the specific instance.

Root — Provides the lowest cost path to forward packets to the root device.

Designated — Indicates the port or LAG through which the designated device is attached to the LAN.

Alternate — Provides an alternate path to the root device from the root interface.

Backup — Provides a backup path to the designated port path toward the Spanning Tree leaves. Backup ports occur only when two ports are connected in a loop by a point-to-point link or when a LAN has two or more connections connected to a shared segment.

Disabled — Indicates the port is not participating in the Spanning Tree.

2.Define the values in the Unit and Port fields.

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4.Define the Internal Path Cost and Priority fields.

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6.Click adjacent to an MSTI ID row to edit the values for Internal Path Cost and Priority.

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