Dimension
Table 6-2 Port Edit Screen
LABEL | DESCRIPTION | EXAMPLE |
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Spanning Tree | Select Spanning Tree Protocol to enable. See section 5.5 for more |
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Protocol | information. |
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Priority | Configure the priority for each port here. Priority decides which port | 128 (default) |
| should be disabled when more than one port forms a loop in a switch. |
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| Ports with a higher priority numeric value are disabled first. The |
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| allowed range is between 0 and 255 and default value is 128. |
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Path Cost | Path cost is the cost of transmitting a frame on to a LAN through that | 100 |
| port. It is assigned according to the speed of the bridge. The slower the |
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| media, the higher the cost - see Table |
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| information. |
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802.1Q VLAN: These fields are only visible if you chose 802.1Q In the VLAN Type field in the Switch Setup screen.
Default VLAN ID | Default VLAN ID is the PVID, the Port VLAN ID assigned to untagged | 1(default) |
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GVRP | GVRP (GARP VLAN Registration Protocol) is a registration protocol |
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| that defines a way for switches to register necessary VLAN members |
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| on ports across the network. Select this check box to enable GVRP |
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| and propagate VLANs information beyond the local switch. |
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VLAN Acceptable | Choose All if you want the port to accept both tagged and untagged | All |
Frame Type | incoming packets (to that port). Choose Tagged if you want the port to |
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| accept just tagged incoming packets (to that port). See section 5.4 for |
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| more information on VLANs. |
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Port Security | Port security means that only packets with dynamically learned MAC |
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| addresses and/or configured static MAC addresses can pass through |
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| this port. The switch can learn up to 16K MAC addresses in total with |
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| no limit on individual ports other than the sum cannot exceed 16K. |
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| For maximum port security, enable Port Security, disable Mac |
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| address learning and configure static MAC address(es) for that port. It |
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| is not recommended you disable Port Security together with MAC |
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| address learning as this will result in many broadcasts. |
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Address Learning | MAC address learning reduces outgoing broadcast traffic. For MAC |
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| address learning to occur on a port, the port must port must have |
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| address learning active and the port itself must be active. |
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Active | Select Active to enable MAC address learning on this port. |
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Port Setup |