Displaying Bridge Port Settings

Use the Bridge Interface Configuration window to display the bridge port settings, and to access a window that lets you modify bridge port settings.

Field Descriptions

Port # Port's assigned number.
Associated Interface Interface that is paired with this port.
Address Port's MAC address.
Interface State Interface's operational state (up or down).
ST State Operational state of the Spanning Tree Protocol (up, down, forwarding).
Port Port's operational state (enabled or disabled).
Spanning Tree State of the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) (enabled or disabled).

Manual (non-listening)

State of bridge learning (enabled or disabled).  If manual mode is enabled, the port's forwarding table that contains learned addressess is purged, and new addresses are not learned. However, you can still configure MAC address filters manually. See Configuring Permanent Address Filters for more information.
Cost Path cost.  Path cost can range from 1 to 65535, with higher values indicating higher costs.
Prio Priority of a bridge, indicating the likelihood that it will be selected as the root bridge.