Heritage Series ADSL Bridge/ Router

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Command Sets for Command Line Interface

8. status

Syntax:

Status

Description:

This command shows the status of the bridge and its ports. The status information for a port includes the SNMP type information about time exceeded packets, packets discarded, etc. It also includes the broadcast history of the port over the last five seconds and the high water mark of packets queued on the bridge for this device.

Example:

DSL bridge> status

9. spanning disable enable

Syntax:

spanning disable spanning enable

Description:

When spanning tree operation is disabled, the bridge operates in transparent mode and all bridge ports are set to the forwarding state. When spanning tree operation is enabled, the state of the bridge’s ports is controlled by the spanning tree process.

The status command reports the state of the spanning tree process. Configuration saving saves this information. By default, spanning tree operation is enabled.

Example:

DSL bridge> spanning disable

DSL bridge> spanning enable

10. spanning forwarddelay

Syntax:

spanning forwarddelay [<time>]

Description:

Reads or sets the time in seconds, in which the bridge remains in the listening or learning states, and is used when the bridge is or is attempting to become the root bridge. The forward delay time may be any value between 4 and 30 but it is also constrained by the maximum age and hello times. The forward delay time may also by changed by SNMP command. The maxage, hellotime and forwarddelay times are constrained as follows:

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IBM Heritage user manual Status, Spanning disable enable, Spanning forwarddelay

Heritage specifications

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