ZyXEL Communications MES-2110 manual Bridge Configuration Screen, STP Port States, Forwarded

Chapter 11 Bridge

11.1.3 STP Port States

STP assigns five port states to eliminate frame looping. A bridge port is not allowed to go directly from blocking state to forwarding state so as to eliminate transient loops.

Table 24 STP Port States

PORT	DESCRIPTION
STATE
Disabled	STP is disabled (default).
Blocking	Only configuration and management BPDUs are received and processed.
Listening	All BPDUs are received and processed.

	Note: The listening state does not exist in RSTP.
Learning	All BPDUs are received and processed. Information frames are submitted
	to the learning process but not forwarded.
Forwarding	All BPDUs are received and processed. All information frames are received
	and forwarded.

11.2 The Bridge Configuration Screen

Click Configuration > Bridge Menu > Bridge Config to open the following screen.

Figure 36 Configuration > Bridge Menu > Bridge Config

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