Description: The switch port index that serves as the base port for this hunt group. Each hunt group requires a base port. In lieu of a specific configuration, the hunt group will inherit the first switch port bound to the hunt group as its base port.

The base port serves as the management focus for the hunt group. That is, a hunt group is managed as one switch port whose instance is provided by the base switch port. All configuration (e.g. spanning tree information) and statistics related to switch ports are meaningful only through the instance of the base port.