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11-10 CHAPTER 11: ADMINISTERING BRIDGE PORTS
Setting the Port
Priority
The STP port priority influences the choice of port when the bridge has two
ports connected to the same LAN, creating a loop. The port with the lowest
port priority will be the one used by the Spanning Tree Protocol.
Port priority value Port priority is a 1-octet value.
To configure the port priority:
1 From the top level of the Administration Console, enter:
bridge port stpPriority
You are prompted for the port type.
2 Enter
Ethernet, FDDI, or all.
You are prompted for the port number(s).
3 Enter the number(s) of the port(s) or
all to configure the port priority for
all ports on each bridge.
You are prompted for the port priority for each port you specified.
4 Enter the port priority for the port(s).
The following example shows values being set for more than one port:
Ethernet port 3 - Enter new value [0x80]: 1
Ethernet port 4 - Enter new value [0x80]: 500
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.
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fddi
➧bridge
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snmp
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logout
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ipFragmentation
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agingTime
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stpMaxAge
stpHelloTime
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stpGroupAddress
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packetFilter
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multicastLimit
stpState
stpCost
➧stpPriority
address