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10-8 CHAPTER 10: ADMINISTERING THE BRIDGE
To configure the STP bridge priority:
1 From the top level of the Administration Console, enter:
bridge stpPriority
2 Enter the priority value at the prompt.
If your configuration was successful, you return to the previous menu. If the
configuration was not successful, you are notified that your changes failed,
and you can try to re-enter those changes.
Setting the Bridge
Maximum Age
The bridge maximum age determines when the stored configuration
message information is judged too old and discarded from the bridge’s
memory.
When the Spanning Tree Protocol is configured properly, the maximum age
value should ideally never be reached. If the value is too small, then the
Spanning Tree Protocol may reconfigure too often, causing temporary loss
of connectivity in the network. If the value is too large, the network will take
longer than necessary to adjust to a new Spanning Tree configuration after
a topology change such as the restarting of a bridge.
Maximum Age
recommended value
A conservative value is to assume a delay variance of 2 seconds per hop.
The recommended value is 20 seconds.
To configure the bridge max age:
1 From the top level of the Administration Console, enter:
bridge stpMaxAge
2 Enter the bridge max age value.
If your configuration was successful, you return to the previous menu. If the
configuration was not successful, you are notified that your changes failed,
and you can try to re-enter those changes.
Top-Level Menu
system
ethernet
➧bridge
ip
snmp
analyzer
script
logout
display
ipFragmentation
ipxSnapTranslation
addressThreshold
agingTime
stpState
➧stpPriority
stpMaxAge
stpHelloTime
stpForwardDelay
stpGroupAddress
port
packetFilter
Top-Level Menu
system
ethernet
➧bridge
ip
snmp
analyzer
script
logout
display
ipFragmentation
ipxSnapTranslation
addressThreshold
agingTime
stpState
stpPriority
➧stpMaxAge
stpHelloTime
stpForwardDelay
stpGroupAddress
port
packetFilter