Moxa Technologies EDS-408A Root/Not Root, Protocol of Redundancy, Bridge priority, Hello time sec

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This shows the communication protocol being used—Turbo Ring, RSTP, or none.

Root/Not Root

This is displayed only when RSTP is selected as the mode of operation. It indicates whether or not this EDS is the Root of the Spanning Tree (the root is determined automatically).

At the lower portion of this page, the user can configure the Settings of this function. For RSTP, you can configure:

Protocol of Redundancy

	Setting	Description		Factory Default
	Turbo Ring	Select this item to change to the		None
		Turbo Ring configuration page.
	RSTP (IEEE	Select this item to change to the		None
	802.1W/1D)	RSTP configuration page.
Bridge priority
	Setting	Description		Factory Default
		Increase this device’s bridge
		priority by selecting a lower
	Numerical value	number. A device with a higher
		bridge priority has a greater	32768
	selected by user
		chance of being established as the
		root of the Spanning Tree
		topology.
Forwarding Delay
	Setting	Description		Factory Default
	Numerical value	The amount of time this device	15 (sec.)
		waits before checking to see if it
	input by user
		should change to a different state.
Hello time (sec.)
	Setting	Description		Factory Default
		The root of the Spanning Tree
		topology periodically sends out a
	Numerical value	“hello” message to other devices
		on the network to check if the	2
	input by user	topology is healthy. The “hello
		time” is the amount of time the
		root waits between sending hello
		messages.

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