Built-in Commands

passiveStp

Description: Enables, disables, or displays the status of Passive Mode Spanning Tree on the device.

Passive Mode Spanning tree allows ports on leaf bridges to transition very quickly and not invoke a global network re-span through requesting root elections by:

Not allowing switches to become the root node;

Not allowing switches to send configuration BPDUs;

Expiring the message age timer when a link transitions to a down state;

Moving the 802.1D Blocked state directly to forwarding; and

Using a default or locally defined Passive STP Max Age time.

Syntax:

passiveStp [ enable disable status ]

 

 

Options:

enable – Enables PassiveStp on this device.

 

disable – Disables PassiveStp on this device.

 

status – Indicates the current status of Passive STP.

 

 

Examples:

->PassiveStp disable

 

Disabled

 

->PassiveStp status

 

Passive is disabled

 

Passive Maxage = 2000

ping

Description:

Generates an outbound ping request to check the status (alive/not alive) of a

 

device at a specified IP address.

 

 

Syntax:

ping [IP address]

 

 

Options:

IP address — Specifies the IP address to ping.

 

 

Example:

->ping 122.144.40.10

 

122.144.40.10 is alive

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Enterasys Networks 2E253, 2H253, 2H252, 2H258 manual PassiveStp, Ping