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User’s Manual of WGSD-10020 Series

values. Using the Specific setting, a user-defined value can be entered. The

path cost is used when establishing the active topology of the network. Lower

path cost ports are chosen as forwarding ports in favor of higher path cost ports.

Valid values are in the range 1 to 200000000.

Priority

Controls the port priority. This can be used to control priority of ports having

identical port cost. (See above).

Default: 128

Range: 0-240, in steps of 16

AdminEdge

Controls whether the operEdge flag should start as beeing set or cleared. (The

initial operEdge state when a port is initialized).

AutoEdge

Controls whether the bridge should enable automatic edge detection on the

bridge port. This allows operEdge to be derived from whether BPDU's are

received on the port or not.

Restricted Role

If enabled, causes the port not to be selected as Root Port for the CIST or any

MSTI, even if it has the best spanning tree priority vector. Such a port will be

selected as an Alternate Port after the Root Port has been selected. If set, it can

cause lack of spanning tree connectivity. It can be set by a network administrator

to prevent bridges external to a core region of the network influence the spanning

tree active topology, possibly because those bridges are not under the full control

of the administrator. This feature is also known as Root Guard.

Restricted TCN

If enabled, causes the port not to propagate received topology change

notifications and topology changes to other ports. If set it can cause temporary

loss of connectivity after changes in a spanning tree's active topology as a result

of persistently incorrect learned station location information. It is set by a network

administrator to prevent bridges external to a core region of the network, causing

address flushing in that region, possibly because those bridges are not under the

full control of the administrator or the physical link state of the attached LANs

transits frequently.

BPDU Guard

If enabled, causes the port to disable itself upon receiving valid BPDU's. Contrary

to the similar bridge setting, the port Edge status does not effect this setting.

A port entering error-disabled state due to this setting is subject to the bridge Port

Error Recovery setting as well.

Point-to-point

Controls whether the port connects to a point-to-point LAN rather than a shared

medium. This can be automatically determined, or forced either true or false.

Transitions to the forwarding state is faster for point-to-point LANs than for

shared media.

Buttons

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