Allied Telesis AT-8100 Series - Manual (Page 775)

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Chapter 53
STP, RSTP and MSTP Protocols
This chapter covers the following topics:
 “Overview” on page 776
 “Bridge Priority and the Root Bridge” on page 777
 “Path Costs and Port Costs” on page 778
 “Port Priority” on page 779
 “Forwarding Delay and Topology Changes” on page 780
 “Hello Time and Bridge Protocol Data Units (BPDU)” on page 781
 “Point-to-Point and Edge Ports” on page 782
 “Mixed STP and RSTP Networks” on page 785
 “Spanning Tree and VLANs” on page 786
 “RSTP and MSTP BPDU Guard” on page 787
 “STP, RSTP, MSTP Loop Guard” on page 789
 “STP and RSTP Root Guard” on page 794