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Bridge Status Displays
Bridge Port Status
Press
[A]
at the Bridge Status Displays Menu to display the configurational and oper-
ational status of all Bridge ports in the node:
Figure 20-12 Bridge Port Status Display
[C],[F],[D],[A]
from Main Menu
Bridge ID
is in the form
Priority.MAC Address
, where
Priority
is the hex
value of the
Bridge Priority
configured in the Bridge Port record.
If there are more Bridge ports than will fit on one screen, pressing
[PgUp]
or
[PgDn]
will display other screens.
Pressing
[F2]
at the screen in Figure 20-12 will display a screen of Bridge Port Sta-
tistics for the ports on the above screen.
Information on the Bridge Port Status Display:
●
Type/Format
– identifies the interface type (Ethernet, Token Ring, or frame
relay) and (if frame relay) frame format (Native LLC2, 8025_SRB, or 8023_TB,
as configured in the Port record).
●
Status
(
Active
or
Inactive
) – is the operational state of the underlying physical
port. The status will be
Inactive
only if the
Blocked Port Flag
(see page 7-16) is
enabled.
●
Bridge State
– can be any of the following. (Note that a Bridge can be in an
enabled state even if the physical port is inactive):
◆
Disabled
– the Bridge port has been disabled by operator action. The port
can leave this state through an operator re-enable or node IPL.
◆
Listening
– the Bridge port is transitioning to the
Learning
state. Only
Node Name=node_xyz
Bridge Port Status Display
Bridge Id: 0010.00000364439B Root Port: 255
Num
Type/Format Status Bridge S tate Rece i ve Xmit
0 Ethern et Active Disabled 4294967296 4294967296
1 Token Ring Active Listening 4675561234 4675561234
2 Frm/Nat LLC2 Active Learning 4561230000 4562222100
3 Frm/8023/TB Active Blocking 4561231100 4561231100
PgUp PgD n F2:More Info F3:Exit