Allied Telesis AT-9000 Series - Manual (Page 589)

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Chapter 40
STP, RSTP and MSTP Protocols
This chapter covers the following topics:
 “Overview” on page 562
 “Bridge Priority and the Root Bridge” on page 563
 “Path Costs and Port Costs” on page 564
 “Port Priority” on page 565
 “Forwarding Delay and Topology Changes” on page 566
 “Hello Time and Bridge Protocol Data Units (BPDU)” on page 567
 “Point-to-Point and Edge Ports” on page 568
 “Mixed STP and RSTP Networks” on page 570
 “Spanning Tree and VLANs” on page 571
 “RSTP and MSTP BPDU Guard” on page 572
 “STP, RSTP, MSTP Loop Guard” on page 574
 “STP and RSTP Root Guard” on page 579