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Chapter 8 Setting up bridging 195
Reference for the Business Policy Switch 2000 Management Software Operations
Transparent tab
The Transparent tab contains information about a specific unicast MAC address,
which has some forwarding information for the bridge.
To view the Transparent tab:
1 From the Device Manager menu bar, choose Edit > Bridge.
The Bridge dialog box opens, with the Base tab displayed.
2 Click the Transparent tab.
The Transparent tab opens (Figure 104).
BridgeHelloTime Value that the bridge uses for HelloTime when the
bridge is acting as the root. The granularity of this
timer is specified by 802.1D- 1990 to be one second.
An agent may return a badValue error if a set is
attempted to a value that is not a whole number of
seconds.
TimeSinceTopologogyChange Value that all bridges use for ForwardDelay when
this bridge is acting as the root.
Note: 802.1D-1990 specifies that the range for this
parameter is related to the value of
dot1dStpBridgeMaxAge. The granularity of this timer
is specified by 802.1D-1990 to be one second. An
agent may return a badValue error if a set is
attempted to a value that is not a whole number of
seconds.
Table 77 Spanning Tree tab fields (continued)
Field Description