Whether  to  enable  the appropriate protection  on  interface.  The 
options are as follow: 
Root  protection:  root  protection  function  can  protect  the  root 
switch position  by  maintaining the  role  of  designated port.  By 
configuring  the  Root  Protection  on  port,  all  the  port  roles  in 
instances will be kept as designated ports. When the port receives a 
higher  priority  BPDU,  the  port  role  will  not  be  set  as 
non-designated  port,  but  turn  into  the  listening  state  and  stop 
forwarding  packets.  If  the  port  has  no  longer  receives  higher 
priority  BPDU  after  a  long  time,  it  will  restore  to  its  original 
normal state. 
Loop Protection: on the switch, the status of root ports and other 
blocked ports are relying on the continuous BPDUs received from 
the upstream. The switch will reselect root port when the BPDU 
from the upper  switch can not be received because of network 
congestion or unidirectional link failure. If the original root port 
becomes a designated port and the original blocked port moves to 
the forwarding state, it will results in undesirable loops in Switch 
network. Loop protection function can suppress this kind of loop. 
After the loop protection started, if the root port can not receive a 
BPDU  from  upstream,  it  will  be  set  in  blocked  state,  and  the 
blocked ports will remain in blocking state and does not forward 
packets to the network to ensure that no loop can be formed. 
TC Protection: the switch will delete MAC address table and ARP 
table entry if TC-BPDU is received. The frequent deletion of table 
entry for receiving a large amount of TC-BPDU will bring a great 
burden to device. TC protection Configuration on interface can 
avoid frequent deletion operations, and will avoid the transmission 
of TC-BPDU. 
force-true:  indicate  a  point-to-point  share  link.  Point-to-point 
interface is similar to the  edge interface, but  the point-to-point 
interface mode must be full-duplex mode. Like the edge interface, 
the  point-to-point  interface  can  transform  to  forwarding  state 
quickly in order to gain the advantages of RSTP. 
force-false: indicate the interface does not have a point-to-point 
state. 
auto: indicate the interface will transform to point-to-point state 
whenever it can be transformed, just as the  point-to-point state 
"force-true"  .  If  the  interface  cannot  remain  in  this  state  (for 
example, the interface was forced to run half-duplex mode), the 
state will be changed, just as the state of "force-false". The default 
parameter is set to "auto".