CONFIGURING THE SWITCH
Displaying Port Status for STP
You can display the current STP settings and state for each port.
Field Attributes
•Port State – Displays the current state of this port in the Spanning Tree:
-Disabled - No link has been established on this port. Otherwise, the port has been disabled by the user or has failed diagnostics.
-Blocking - Port receives STP configuration messages, but does not forward packets.
-Listening - Port will leave blocking state due to a topology change, start transmitting configuration messages, but will not yet forward packets.
-Learning - Port has transmitted configuration messages for an interval set by the Forward Delay parameter without receiving contradictory information. Port address table is cleared, and the port begins learning addresses.
-Forwarding - Port forwards packets, and continues learning addresses.
-Broken - Port is malfunctioning or no link has been established.
See the preceding page for a description of the other fields.
Web – Click Administrator=>Spanning Tree.
