Netgear GSM7212F GSM5212P/GSM7212P/GSM7212F/GSM7224P User Manual - Page 124

Web Management User Guide MST Port Status Use the Spanning Tree MST Port Status page to configure and display Multiple Spanning Tree (MST) settings on a specific port on the switch. To display the Spanning Tree MST Port Status page, click Switching  STP  Advanced  MST Port Status. Note: If no MST instances have been configured on the switch, the page displays a "No MSTs Available" message and does not display the fields shown in the field description table that follows. To configure MST port settings: 1. Use MST ID to select one MST instance from existing MST instances. 2. Use Interface to select one of the physical or port channel interfaces associated with VLANs associated with the selected MST instance. 3. Use Port Priority to specify the priority for a particular port within the selected MST instance. The port priority is set in multiples of 16. For example if the priority is attempted to be set to any value between 0 and 15, it will be set to 0. If it is tried to be set to any value between 16 and (2*16-1) it will be set to 16 and so on. 4. Use Port Path Cost to set the Path Cost to a new value for the specified port in the selected MST instance. It takes a value in the range of 1 to 200000000. The following table describes the read-only MST port configuration information displayed on the Spanning Tree CST Configuration page. Field Auto Calculated Port Path Cost Port ID Port Uptime Since Last Clear Counters Description Displays whether the path cost is automatically calculated (Enabled) or not (Disabled). Path cost will be calculated based on the link speed of the port if the configured value for Port Path Cost is zero. The port identifier for the specified port within the selected MST instance. It is made up from the port priority and the interface number of the port. Time since the counters were last cleared, displayed in Days, Hours, Minutes, and Seconds. 124