Allied Telesis AT-9000/52 User Manual

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Chapter 12: Setting Switch Spanning Tree Protocols
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Modifying Switch Spanning Tree Protocol Settings
To modify port settings for Spanning Tree Protocol, do the following:
1. Select the Switching tab.
The Switching tab is displayed. See Figure 19 on page 58.
2. From the Switching tab, select Spanning Tree.
The Switch Spanning Tree Settings page is displayed. See Figure 48 
on page 139.
3. Change the following settings as needed:
Active Protocol— Indicates if the active spanning tree protocol is 
STP or RSTP. The default setting is RSTP.
Status— Indicates if the spanning tree protocol is enabled or 
disabled on the switch.
Current Priority— By default, the current priority is set to 32,768. 
You cannot change this field.
New Priority (0-15)— Assigns the switch a priority number. The 
device that has the lowest priority number in the spanning tree 
domain becomes the root bridge. If two or more devices have the 
same priority value, the device with the numerically lowest MAC 
address becomes the root bridge.
The range is 0 to 61,440, in increments of 4,096. The range is 
divided into the sixteen increments listed in Table 2. You specify 
the increment that represents the desired bridge priority value. The 
default value is 32,768 (increment 8).
Table 3. STP Bridge Priority Value Increments
Increment
Bridge 
Priority 
Increment
Bridge 
Priority 
0
0
8
32768
1
4096
9
36864
2
8192
10
40960
3
12288
11
45056
4
16384
12
49152
5
20480
13
53248
6
24576
14
57344