Chapter 14 Loop Guard

14.3 Loop Guard

Use this screen to enable the loop guard feature and to configure the port recovery time for when a port goes down. Click Advanced Settings > Loop Guard to display the screen as shown.

Figure 46 Loop Guard

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 21 Loop Guard

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

State

Select this option to enable loop guard on the Switch.

 

The Switch generates syslog, internal log messages as well as SNMP traps

 

when it shuts down a port via the loop guard feature.

 

 

MAC Address

Enter the destination MAC address the probe packets will be sent to. If

 

the port receives these same packets the port will be shut down.

 

 

Port

Select a port on which to configure loop guard protection.

 

 

State

Select Enable to use the loop guard feature on the Switch.

 

 

Loop

Select Enable to reactivate the port automatically after the designated

Recovery

recovery time has passed.

 

 

Recovery

Specify the recovery time in minutes that the Switch will wait before

Time

reactivating the port. This can be between 1 to 60 minutes.

 

 

Apply

Click Apply to save your changes to the Switch.

 

 

Refresh

Click Refresh to begin configuring this screen afresh.

 

 

Port

This field displays a port number.

 

 

State

This field displays if the loop guard feature is enabled.

 

 

 

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