Siemens SCALANCE XB-200 - Page 155

Configuring with Web Based Management
5.5 The "Layer 2" menu
SCALANCE XB-200 Web Based Management
Configuration Manual, 04/2015, C79000-G8976-C360-02
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Table 1 contains the following columns:
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1st column
Shows that the settings are valid for all ports of table 2
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Threshold Value / Remote Reaction / Local Reaction
Make the required settings.
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Copy to Table
If you click the button, the setting is adopted for all ports of table 2
Table 2 contains the following columns:
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Port
Shows the available ports.
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Setting
Specify how the port handles loop detection frames. Select one of the following options
from the drop-down list:
Note
Test frames create
additional network load. We recommend that you only configure
individual switches, for example at branch points of the ring, as "Sender" and the others
as "Forwarder".
– Sender
Loop detection frames are sent out and forwarded.
– Forwarder
Loop detection frames from other devices are forwarded.
– blocked
The forwarding of loop detection frames is blocked.
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Threshold
By entering a number, specify the number of received loop detection frames as of which
a loop is assumed.
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Remote reaction
Specify how the port will react if a remote loop occurs. Select one of the two options from
the drop-down list:
– No action: A loop has no effect on the port.
– Disable: The port is blocked.
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Local reaction
Specify how the port will react if a local loop occurs. Select one of the two options from
the drop-down list:
– No action: A loop has no effect on the port.
– Disable: The port is blocked
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Status
This box shows whether loop detection is enabled or disabled for this port.
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Source port
Shows the output port of the loop detection frame that triggered the last reaction.