SPANNING TREE PROTOCOL CONFIGURATION

•Path Cost — This parameter is used by the STP 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.)

- Range —

Ethernet: 200,000-20,000,000

Fast Ethernet: 20,000-2,000,000

Gigabit Ethernet: 2,000-200,000

- Defaults —

Ethernet — half duplex: 2,000,000; full duplex: 1,000,000;

trunk: 500,000

Fast Ethernet — half duplex: 200,000; full duplex: 100,000;

trunk: 50,000

Gigabit Ethernet — full duplex: 10,000; trunk: 5,000

Note: When the Path Cost Method is set to short, the maximum path cost is 65,535.

•Admin Link Type — The link type attached to this interface. (Default: Auto)

-Point-to-Point— A connection to exactly one other bridge.

-Shared — A connection to two or more bridges.

-Auto — The switch automatically determines if the interface is attached to a point-to-point link or to shared media.

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10/100/1000 SMCGS8P-Smart specifications

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