Specifications

11-8 WS2000 Wireless Switch System Reference Guide
The screen also provide comprehensive information on the port interfaces used. This information is displayed
in the form of a table in the Port Interface Table portion of the screen.
11.3 Wireless LAN Statistics
The WS2000 Network Management System provides screens that display information about all of the
switch’s wireless operations as well as information for each enabled wireless LAN (WLAN). Both screens
are described in this section.
11.3.1 Displaying WLAN Summary Information
To see a summary information about wireless operations, select Status & Statistics --> Wireless Stats
from the left menu.
Field Description
Port ID Identifies the port from which the configuration message was sent.
State Displays whether a bridge is forwarding traffic to other members of the mesh network
(over this port) or blocking traffic. Each viable member of the mesh network must
forward traffic to extent the coverage area of the mesh network.
Path Cost The root path cost is the distance (cost) from the sending bridge to the root bridge.
Dsgtd. Root Displays the MAC address of the access point defined with the lowest priority within
the Mesh STP Configuration screen.
Dsgtd. Bridge There is only one root bridge within each mesh network. All other bridges are
designated bridges that look to the root bridge for several mesh network timeout
values.
Dsgtd. Port Each designated bridge must use a unique port. The value listed represents the port
used by each bridge listed within the table to route traffic to other members of the mesh
network.
Dsgtd. Cost Displays the unique distance between each access point MAC address listed in the
Designated Bridge column and the access point MAC address listed in the Designated
Root column.