D-Link DES-3624 Switch User Manual


 
Stackable NWay Ethernet Switch User’s Guide
Using the Console Interface 63
Figure 6-19. STP Custom Settings screen
Items in the above window are described as follows:
STP State
Sets the Spanning Tree Protocol on a particular port to
Enabled or
Disabled
.
Cost
Defines the cost for the connection.
Priority
Port Priority is a read-write object that can be set from 0 to 255. This is the priority number
of the port. The higher the port priority, the more chance the bridge has of becoming the root port.
Zero is the highest priority.
Note:
If a port is a member of a trunk group but is not the anchor, the items shown in the above table
will be read-only and the values will be the same as those for the anchor port.
Configure Filtering and Forwarding Table
When a packet hits the Switch, it looks in the filtering and forwarding tables to decide what to do with the
packet; either to filter it off the network, or to forward it through the port on which its destination lies.
Dynamic Filtering and Static Filtering are among the two important features of the
Custom Filtering
Table
. They are defined here briefly as follows.
Dynamic Filtering
is defined when a dynamic entry is created
by the Learning Process as a result of observation of network traffic in the Filtering Database.
Static Filtering