  CONFIGURATION EDITOR

# Bridging

  Note: Depending upon your product type, this dialog may vary. This help context covers all possible configuration parameters. If your dialog does not contain certain parameters, they don't apply to the product you are configuring.

Aging Timer

BAN/R ing Numbers

BPDU Transmission

Bridged SNA/LLC2 Traffic Priorities

Bridging Control By

Protocol

Bridge Priority

Delay Timer

Enable Bridging

Frame Relay Settings

Hello Timer

LAN-WAN Hop Ring

Maximum Age

Traffic Priorities

  Bridging enables you to link similar LANs. This causes multiple LANs to appear as one LAN to the network.
  If you are managing units via IP bridging, you must assign the same network address to all networks on the LAN. You only need to assign an IP address to the port through which the management program manages the unit. Make certain IP filtering is OFF.
  Bridging enables you to link similar LANs. This causes multiple LANs to appear as one LAN to the network. If you are managing units via IP bridging, you must assign the same network address to all networks on the LAN. You only need to assign an IP address to the port through which the management program manages the unit. Make certain IP filtering is OFF.

Enable Bridging

  Enable (select) this feature if you want to bridge traffic.
  Range: Enabled or Disabled

Delay Timer

  This parameter sets the amount of time that must elapse before the unit removes a bridge frame from the queue. This parameter is ignored if bridging is disabled.
  Range: 1 -- 4 seconds

Aging Timer

  This parameter sets the aging timer for transparent and source route bridging. This parameter is ignored if bridging is disabled.
  Range: 10 -- 60000 seconds

LAN-WAN Hop Ring

  This parameter is required for LAN-to-WAN bridging over multiple ports on different Frame Relay networks. This value must be different from all internal ring numbers and configured virtual ring numbers.
  Range: 1 ~ FFF

Bridge Priority

  Units in a transparent bridging environment implement a spanning tree algorithm. This value determines the unit's priority within the spanning tree environment. The bridge with the lowest root ID (bridge priority) becomes the root bridge responsible for passing frames to the bridge on the next segment.
  Range: 00001 -- 65535

Maximum Age

  In a spanning tree environment, the root bridge transmits a configuration Bridge Protocol Data Unit (BPDU) onto the network at the interval defined in the Hello Timer field. This BPDU contains information regarding the network topology and indicates to the network that the root bridge is still active.
  Each bridge on the network expects to receive a BPDU on its root port within a specific time frame. If the root bridge exceeds this time frame, the unit assumes the root bridge is not longer active and initiates a new root bridge selection algorithm.
  Range: 6 -- 40 seconds

Hello Timer

  This timer determines how frequently a unit sends a BPDU when configured as a root bridge.
  Range: 1 -- 10 seconds

Traffic Priorities

  These fields enable you to set the priority level for the associated traffic.
  Range: Low, Medium, High, or Urgent