VES-1000 Series Ethernet Switch
5-4 Port Setup
Table 5-B Menu 6.13 – Ethernet Port Setup
FIELD DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE
Edit Spanning
Tree Protocol
Setup
Press [SPACE BAR] once to select Yes and then press [ENTER] to go to
Menu 6.1 - Port Spanning Tree Protocol Setup. You must enable STP
on the switch (in menu 2) before you configure it on a port(s).
No
Edit VLAN Setup Press [SPACE BAR] once to select Yes and then press [ENTER] to open
Menu 6.1.3 — Port VLAN Setup.
No
Default Port
Priority
The Default Port Priority value is added to incoming frames without a
(802.1p) priority tag. The default is 0. Use this field to define the default
priority of each port.
0
When you have completed this menu, press [ENTER] at the prompt “Press ENTER to Confirm…” to save your
configuration, or press [ESC] at any time to cancel.
5.3 Configuring STP on a Port
You must enable STP on the switch (in menu 2) before you configure it on a port(s).
Enter 6 from the main menu and then choose a port to configure by entering its index number. Go to the Edit
Spanning Tree Protocol Setup field, press [SPACE BAR] once to select Yes and then [ENTER] to go to Menu
6.1 - Port Spanning Tree Protocol Setup.
Figure 5-4 Menu 6.1 - Port Spanning Tree Protocol Setup
Table 5-C Menu 6.1 - Port Spanning Tree Protocol Setup
FIELD DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE
Spanning Tree
Protocol:
Configure the next three fields to use STP on this port. Make sure that STP is
enabled on the device (see section4.2.4).
Active Press [SPACE BAR] once to select Yes to enable the Spanning Tree
Protocol.
No
Priority Configure the priority for each port here. Priority decides which port should be
disabled when more than one port form a loop in a switch. Ports with a higher
numeric priority value are disabled first. The allowed range is between 0 and
255 and the default value is 128.
128 (default)
Path Cost Path cost is the cost of transmitting a frame onto a LAN through that port. It is
assigned according to the speed of the media. The slower the media, the
higher the cost. See Table 4-D Path Cost.
Menu 6.1 - Port Spanning Tree Protocol Setup
Spanning Tree Protocol:
Active= No
Priority= 128
Path Cost= 100
Press ENTER to Confirm or ESC to Cancel:
Press Space Bar to Toggle.
