Draytek g2080 User Manual

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VigorSwitch G2080 User’s Guide 
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Admin Edge Port: 
If user selects “Yes”, this port will be an edge port. An Edge 
Port is a port connected to a device that knows nothing about 
STP or RSTP. Usually, the connected device is an end 
station. Edge Ports will immediately transit to forwarding 
state and skip the listening and learning state because the 
edge ports cannot create bridging loops in the network. This 
will expedite the convergence. When the link on the edge 
port toggles, the STP topology keeps unchanged. Unlike the 
designate port or root port though, an edge port will transit to 
a normal spanning-tree port immediately if it receives a 
BPDU.  
 
Default: No 
Admin Point To Point: 
We say a port is a point-to-point link, from RSTP’s view, if 
it is in full-duplex mode but is shared link if it is in 
half-duplex mode. RSTP fast convergence can only happen 
on point-to-point links and on edge ports. This can expedite 
the convergence because this will have the port fast transited 
to forwarding state.   
 
There are three parameters, Auto, True and False, used to 
configure the type of the point-to-point link. If configure this 
parameter to be Auto, it means RSTP will use the duplex 
mode resulted from the auto-negotiation. In today’s switched 
networks, most links are running in full-duplex mode. For 
sure, the result may be half-duplex, in this case, the port will 
not fast transit to Forwarding state. If it is set as True, the 
port is treated as point-to-point link by RSTP and 
unconditionally transited to Forwarding state. If it is set as 
False, fast transition to Forwarding state will not happen on 
this port.   
 
Default: Auto 
M Check:   
Migration Check. It forces the port sending out an RSTP 
BPDU instead of a legacy STP BPDU at the next 
transmission. The only benefit of this operation is to make 
the port quickly get back to act as an RSTP port. Click <M 
Check>
 button to send a RSTP BPDU from the port you 
specified.