Olicom 8600, 8605 manual 177, Switch Maximum Message Age + 2 x Switch Forward Delay

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•When the switch is booted, all ports are blocked initially, and then some of them change to a different state: listening, learning, and forwarding, in that order. To see the change in states you must repeatedly exit from this menu, and then select it again. All ports that are going to change states from blocking to forwarding will have done so after two to three times the value of:

Switch Maximum Message Age + (2 x Switch Forward Delay)

DCst

Cost for a packet to travel from this port to the root in the current spanning-tree configuration. The slower the media, the higher the cost.

Dsg SwId/BrId

Priority and MAC address of the device through which this port has determined it must communicate with the root of the spanning tree.

Dsg PId

Port on the designated bridge through which this switch will communicate with the root of the spanning tree. This information is useful if the switch is the designated bridge on one or more network segments.

# Chgs

Number of topology changes, that is, the number of times the port has entered the forwarding state plus the number of times the port has made the transition from forwarding to blocking. The counter is reset when the switch is reset or the spanning tree is turned on.

Last Chg

Time since the port last entered the forwarding state or made the transition from forwarding to blocking.

You cannot change any information on this screen. To change the spanning tree parameters, refer to the section “Spanning Tree for TrBRF Screen” on page 99.

CrossFire 8600/8605 Token-Ring Switches v. 1.2, P/N: 710001641 Monitoring the Network with the Console