MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCONNECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO
SAMPLE SETUP AND CONFIGURATIONS
This section contains the CLI commands you would use to configure MSTP on the switches in Figure 6 where two bridges are Dell PowerConnect switches, and the third bridge is a Cisco Catalyst switch.
The three switches in the figure are as follows:
•BrA: Dell PowerConnect 6248
•BrB: Dell PowerConnect 6248
•BrC: CiscoCatalyst3750series
BrA is the root bridge for MSTP instance 1, and BrC is the root bridge for MSTP instance 2.
CONFIGURING BRIDGE BrA (CLI)
Use the commands in this section to configure the Dell PowerConnect 6248 as bridge BrA as shown in Figure 6.
Dell_BrA(config)#vlan database
Dell_BrA(config)#interface ethernet 1/g1
Dell_BrA(config)#interface ethernet 1/g2
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vlan database | Enter VLAN command mode |
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vlan 10, 20 | Create VLANs 10 and 20 |
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exit | Exit to configuration mode |
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interface Ethernet 1/g1 | Enter interface configuration mode for the |
Ethernet interface on slot 1, port 1 | |
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switchport mode trunk | Configure the VLAN membership mode |
for the port as a trunk (a trunk port | |
| connects two switches) |
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switchport trunk allowed | Add VLANs 10 and 20 to the trunk port |
vlan add 10, 20 |
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switchport trunk allowed | Remove VLAN 1 (the default VLAN) from |
vlan remove 1 | the trunk port |
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