SMC Networks SMC7724M/VSW manual Click STA/STA Trunk Information or STA Port Information

CONFIGURING THE SWITCH

•Path Cost – This parameter is used by the STA 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: 50-600

-Fast Ethernet: 10-60

-Gigabit Ethernet: 3-10

•Default:

-Ethernet - half duplex: 100; full duplex: 95; trunk: 90

-Fast Ethernet - half duplex: 19; full duplex: 18; trunk: 15

-Gigabit Ethernet - full duplex: 4; trunk: 3

•Fast Forward – Since end-nodes cannot cause forwarding loops, they can pass directly through to the forwarding state. Fast Forward can achieve quicker convergence for end-node workstations and servers, and also overcome other STA related timeout problems. (Remember that Fast Forward should only be enabled for ports connected to an end-node device.)

Web Interface

Click STA/STA Trunk Information or STA Port Information.

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