Moxa Technologies EDS-508 Root/Not Root, Protocol of Redundancy, Bridge priority, Hello time sec

EDS-508 Series User’s Manual Featured Functions

At the top of this page, the user can check the “Current Status” of this function. For RSTP, you will see:

Now Active:

This field will show which communication protocol is being used—Turbo Ring, RSTP, or neither.

Root/Not Root

This field will appear only when selected to operate in RSTP mode. It indicates if this EDS is or is not the Root of the Spanning Tree (the root is determined automatically).

At the bottom 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
	User selectable	number. A device with a higher
		bridge priority has a greater	32768
	numbers
		chance of being established as the
		root of the Spanning Tree
		topology.
Hello time (sec.)

Setting	Description	Factory Default
	The root of the Spanning Tree
	topology periodically sends out a
User adjustable	“hello” message to other devices
	on the network to check if the	2
numbers	topology is healthy. The “hello
	time” is the amount of time the
	root waits between sending hello
	messages.

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