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STP, RSTP, and MSTP configuration and management . . . . . . . . . . 51
Configuring STP, RSTP, or MSTP on CEE interface ports . . . . . . . . . 58
Chapter 7 Configuring Link Aggregation using the CEE CLI
In this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Link aggregation overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
LACP configuration guidelines and restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Default LACP configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Enabling STP, RSTP, or MSTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Disabling STP, RSTP, or MSTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Shutting down STP, RSTP, or MSTP globally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Specifying the bridge priority. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Specifying the bridge forward delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Specifying the bridge maximum aging time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Enabling the error disable timeout timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Specifying the error disable timeout interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Specifying the port-channel path cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Specifying the bridge hello time (STP and RSTP). . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Specifying the transmit hold count (RSTP and MSTP). . . . . . . . 54
Enabling Cisco interoperability (MSTP). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Disabling Cisco interoperability (MSTP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Mapping a VLAN to an MSTP instance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Specifying the maximum number of hops
for a BPDU (MSTP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Specifying a name for an MSTP region. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Specifying a revision number for an MSTP configuration . . . . . 56
Flushing MAC addresses (RSTP and MSTP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Clearing spanning tree counters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Clearing spanning tree-detected protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Displaying STP, RSTP, and MSTP-related information . . . . . . . . 58
Enabling automatic edge detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Configuring the path cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Enabling a port (interface) as an edge port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Enabling the guard root . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Specifying the MSTP hello time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Specifying restrictions for an MSTP instance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Specifying a link type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Enabling port fast (STP). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Specifying the port priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Restricting the port from becoming a root port . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Restricting the topology change notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Enabling spanning tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Disabling spanning tree. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Link Aggregation Group configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Link Aggregation Control Protocol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Dynamic link aggregation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Static link aggregation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Dell-proprietary aggregation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
LAG distribution process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
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