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To manually enable the selected port, highlight Up and press Enter.
To manually disable the selected port, highlight Down and press Enter. (To re-enable the port,
repeat steps 1 through 3 and select Up in step 3.)
Your selection appears next to the selected port.
4. To change the administration status options for other ports, repeat steps 1 through 3.
5. When you finish, press Esc.
Note: This screen also lets you use the L switch to toggle the Port column, as described under Section
Section 4.3.5.3 “Hiding or Displaying the Port Column”.
“Spanning tree path cost” is used by the STA algorithm that 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 full range is 0 - 65535.
If you highlight Spanning Tree Path Costs in the Spanning Tree Protocol screen and press the Enter
key, a Spanning Tree Path Costs screen similar to the following appears.