SPANNING TREE ALGORITHM CONFIGURATION
•Designated Cost – The 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.
•Designated Bridge – The priority and MAC address of the device through which this port must communicate to reach the root of the Spanning Tree.
•Designated Port – The priority and number of the port on the designated bridging device through which this switch must communicate with the root of the Spanning Tree.
•Trunk Member – Indicates if a port is a member of a trunk. (STA Port Information only)
The following interface attributes can be configured:
•Priority – Defines the priority used for this port in the Spanning Tree Protocol. 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. This makes a port with higher priority less likely to be blocked if the Spanning Tree Protocol is detecting network loops. Where more than one port is assigned the highest priority, the port with lowest numeric identifier will be enabled.
-Default: 128
-Range: 0 - 255
