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Table 16 STP Port States

PORT STATE

DESCRIPTION

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.

 

 

5.2.3 STP Status

View current STP information in the STP Status screen. Click Status > STP Status and select a switch from the device list located on the left-hand side of the screen. The STP status displays in the table on the right.

Figure 26 View: STP Status

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 17 View: STP Status

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Device Name

This field displays the descriptive name of a device.

 

 

Device IP

This field displays the IP address of a device

 

 

Tree

Select the index number of the spanning tree whose status you want to display.

 

 

Bridge

Root refers to the base of the spanning tree (the root bridge).

 

 

Bridge ID

This is the unique identifier for this bridge, consisting of bridge priority plus MAC

 

address.

 

 

Hello Time

This is the time interval (in seconds) at which the root device transmits a

(second)

configuration message. The root bridge determines Hello Time, Max Age and

 

Forwarding Delay

 

 

Max Age (second)

This is the maximum time (in seconds) a switch can wait without receiving a

 

configuration message before attempting to reconfigure.

 

 

Forwarding Delay

This is the time (in seconds) the root switch will wait before changing states (that

(second)

is, listening to learning to forwarding).

 

 

Cost to Bridge

This is the path cost from the root port on this switch to the root switch.

 

 

Port ID

This is the priority and number of the port on the switch through which this switch

 

must communicate with the root of the spanning tree.

 

 

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