Owner's Manual

GS700TPS Smart Switch Software Administration Manual
Configuring Switching Settings 4-38
v1.0, June 2009
information displays the same field information as the ports, but represents the LAG RSTP
information.
To define RSTP on the device:
1. Click Switching > STP > Advanced > RSTP. The Rapid STP screen displays:
The Rapid STP screen contains the following fields:
• Interface – Displays the port or LAG on which Rapid STP is enabled or disabled.
• Role – Displays the port role assigned by the STP algorithm to provide to STP paths. The
possible field values are:
– Root – Provides the lowest cost path to forward packets to the root switch.
– Designated – Indicates the port or LAG through which the designated switch is
attached to the LAN.
– Alternate – Provides an alternate path to the root switch from the root interface.
–Backup – Provides a backup path to the designated port path toward the Spanning
Tree leaves. Backup ports occur only when two ports are connected in a loop by a
point-to-point link, or when a LAN has two or more connections connected to a shared
segment.
Figure 4-24