Enhancements in Release F.02.11

Fast-Uplink Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)

Menu: Viewing and Configuring Fast-Uplink STP

You can use the menu to quickly display the entire STP configuration and to make any STP configuration changes.

To View and/or Configure Fast-Uplink STP. This procedure uses the Spanning Tree Operation screen to enable STP and to set the Mode for fast-uplink STP operation.

1.From the Main Menu select:

2.Switch Configuration . . .

4.Spanning Tree Operation

2.In the default STP configuration, RSTP is the selected protocol version. If this is the case on your switch, you must change the Protocol Version to STP in order to use Fast-Uplink STP:

• If the Protocol Version is set to RSTP (the default, as shown in this example, go to step 3.

• If the Protocol Version is set to STP, the rest of the screen will appear as shown in figure 72. In this case, go to step 4 on page 154.

Figure 70. The Default STP Screen With the Protocol Version Field Set to "RSTP"

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