Draytek g2080 User Manual

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VigorSwitch G2080 User’s Guide 
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bridge of the LAN, for example, all other bridges will use 
the hello time assigned by this switch to communicate with 
each other. The valid value is 1 ~ 10 in unit of second.   
 
Default is 2 seconds. 
Max. Age:   
When the GEL2-SW8 is the root bridge, the whole LAN will 
apply this figure set by this switch as their maximum age 
time. When a bridge received a BPDU originated from the 
root bridge and if the message age conveyed in the BPDU 
exceeds the Max. Age of the root bridge, the bridge will treat 
the root bridge malfunctioned and issue a Topology Change 
Notification (TCN) BPDU to all other bridges. All bridges in 
the LAN will re-calculate and determine who the root bridge 
is. The valid value of Max. Age is 6 ~ 40 seconds. Default is 
20 seconds. 
Forward Delay: 
You can set the root bridge forward delay time. This figure 
is set by root bridge only. The forward delay time is defined 
as the time spent from Listening state moved to Learning 
state and also from Learning state moved to Forwarding 
state of a port in bridge. The forward delay time contains 
two states, Listening state to Learning state and Learning 
state to Forwarding state. It assumes that forward delay time 
is 15 seconds, then total forward delay time will be 30 
seconds. This has much to do with the STP convergent time 
which will be more than 30 seconds because some other 
factors.  
 
The valid value is 4 ~ 30 seconds, default is 15 seconds. 
Force Version: 
Two options are offered for the user’s choosing STP 
algorithm. One is RSTP and the other is STP.    If STP is 
chosen, RSTP will run as a legacy STP. The switch supports 
RSTP (802.1w) which is backward compatible with STP 
(802.1d).