3.6 Advanced Configuration

The available options in “Advanced menu” are:

STP Config

The Spanning Tree Setup Screen

 

 

IGMP Config

The IGMP Setup Screen

 

 

Stack Config

The Stack Setup Screen

 

 

SNMP Config

The SNMP Setup Screen

 

 

RMON Statistics

Show RMON statistics information

 

 

Port Security

The Port Security Setup Screen

 

 

MirrorPort Config

The Mirror Port Setup Screen

 

 

Aging Control

The Aging Control Setup Screen

 

 

Address Search

The Address Search Setup Screen

 

 

3.7 STP Config

STP Config provides two menu page to configure: STP Port and STP Bridge

3.7.1 STP Port

Bridge Port

This option shows the port of the bridge that connects to the root bridge.

Path Cost

This parameter is used by the STA algorithm to determine the best path between devices. Therefore, lower values should be assigned to ports attached to faster media, and higher values assigned to ports with slower media. (Path cost takes precedence over port priority.)

The default and recommended range is: Ethernet: 100 (50~600) Fast Ethernet: 19 (10~60) Gigabit

Ethernet: 4 (3~10). The allowed range is 0 - 65535.

Priority

Defines the priority for the use of a port in the Spanning Tree algorithm. If the path cost for all ports on a switch are the same, the port with the highest priority (i.e., lowest value) will be configured as an active link in the Spanning Tree. Where more than one port is assigned the highest priority, the port with lowest numeric identifier will be enabled. The range is 0 - 255.

Setup Procedures

Step 1: Select any one of the ports, from 1 to 26, to connect to the root bridge.

Step 2: Key in the value for Path Cost.

Step 3: Set the priority level.

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