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Insight Managed 8-Port Gigabit (Hi-Power) PoE+ Smart Cloud Switch with NETGEAR FlexPoE Power
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• Forward BPDU while STP Disabled. Enable or disable the BPDU Flood.
The BPDU flood option specifies whether spanning tree BPDUs are forwarded while
spanning tree is disabled on the switch.
8. Click the Apply button.
Your settings are saved.
9. T
o refresh the page with the latest information about the switch, click the Refresh button.
The following table describes the nonconfigurable STP Status fields displayed on the page.
Table 26. STP configuration status
Field Description
Configuration Digest Key Identifier used to identify the configuration currently being used.
STP Status
Bridge Identifier The bridge identifier for the CST. It is made up using the bridge priority and
the base MAC address of the bridge.
Time Since Topology Change The time in day-hour-minute-second format since the topology of the CST
last changed.
Topology Change Count The number of times that the topology changed for the CST.
Topology Change The value of the topology change parameter for the switch indicating
whether a topology change is in progress on any port assigned to the CST
.
Possible values are True and False.
Designated Root The bridge identifier of the root bridge. It is made up from the bridge priority
and the base MAC address of the bridge.
Root Path Cost Path cost to the designated root for the CST.
Root Port Port to access the designated root for the CST.
Max Age (secs) The maximum age timer controls the maximum length of time in seconds
that passes before a bridge port saves its configuration BPDU information.
Forward Delay (secs) The derived value of the Root Port Bridge Forward Delay parameter.
Hold Time (secs) Minimum time in seconds between the transmission of configuration
BPDUs.
CST Regional Root Priority and base MAC address of the CST regional root.
CST Path Cost Path cost to the CST tree regional root.
Configure the CST settings
You can configure a common spanning tree (CST) and internal spanning tree on the switch.
To configure the CST settings:
1. Connect your computer to the same network as the switch.