Status

Displays current state of this port within the Spanning Tree:

 

Disabled

No link has been established on this port. Otherwise, the port

 

 

has been disabled by the user or has failed diagnostics.

 

Blocking

Port receives STA configuration messages, but does not

 

 

forward packets.

 

Listening

Port will leave blocking state due to a topology change, start

 

 

transmitting configuration messages, but does not yet

 

 

forward packets.

 

Learning

Port has transmitted configuration messages for an interval

 

 

set by the Forward Delay parameter without receiving

 

 

contradictory information. Port address table is cleared, and

 

 

the port begins learning addresses.

 

Forwarding The port forwards packets, and continues learning

 

 

addresses.

 

The rules defining port status are:

 

• A port on a network segment with no other STA-compliant bridging

 

device is always forwarding.

 

• If two ports of a switch are connected to the same segment and there

 

is no other STA device attached to this segment, the port with the

 

smaller ID forwards packets and the other is blocked.

 

• All ports are blocked when the switch is booted, then some of them

 

change state to listening, to learning, and then to forwarding.

Designated

The cost for a packet to travel from this port to the root in the current

Cost

Spanning Tree configuration. The slower the media, the higher the cost.

Designated

The priority and MAC address of the device through which this port must

Bridge (ID)

communicate to reach the root of the Spanning Tree.

Designated

The priority and number of the port on the designated bridging device

Port (ID)

through which this switch must communicate with the root of the Spanning

 

Tree.

 

3.7.4.Displaying VLAN Information

These menus display information on the ports that have been automatically learned via GVRP and all those ports that have been configured by dynamic or static means to forward VLAN traffic.

Menu

Description

VLAN Dynamic

Shows the ports that have been automatically learned via GVRP.

Registration

 

Information

 

VLAN Forwarding

Shows all those ports that have been configured by either dynamic

Information

or static means to forward VLAN traffic.

3.7.4.1.VLAN Dynamic Registration Information

This table shows the ports that have been automatically learned via GVRP.

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