CONFIGURATION AND MANAGEMENT
4.Highlight “Hello Time” and press <ENTER> to input a value (1 to 10 seconds) for the rate at which hello frames are to be generated. Press <ENTER> again to confirm the chosen value.
5.Highlight “Maximum Message Age” and press <ENTER> to input a value (6 to 40 seconds) for the amount of time any port within the Spanning Tree network will wait before timing out its protocol information. Press <ENTER> again to confirm the chosen value.
6.Highlight “Forward Delay” and press <ENTER> to input a value (4 to 30 seconds) for the amount of time any port spends in the listening and learning states. Press <ENTER> again to confirm the chosen value.
7.Highlight the setting under the “Path Cost” column for the chosen port and press <ENTER> to input a value (0 to
65535) for the path cost of that port. This parameter is used by the STP algorithm to determine the best path between devices.* Lower values should be assigned to ports attached to faster media. Press <ENTER> again to confirm the chosen value.
8.Highlight the setting under the “Priority” column for the chosen port and press <ENTER> to input a value (0 to 255) for the priority of that port’s use in the Spanning Tree network. If the Path Costs 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. Press <ENTER> again to confirm the chosen value.
9.Highlight “Take Effect Immediately” and press <ENTER> to immediately enable the parameter changes. Press <ENTER> again to confirm the choice.
*Note: Path Cost takes precedence over Port Priority
