•Alternate port—offers an alternate path toward the root switch to that provided by the current root port.
•Backup port—acts as a backup for the path provided by a designated port toward the leaves of the spanning tree. A backup port can exist only when two ports are connected together in a loop-back by a point-to-point link or when a switch has two or more connections to a shared LAN segment.
•Disabled port—has no role in the operation of the spanning tree.
A port with the root or a designated port role is included in the active topology. A port with the alternate or backup port role is excluded from the active topology.
Rapid Convergence
RSTP provides for rapid recovery of connectivity following the failure of a switch, switch port, or LAN. It provides rapid convergence for edge ports, new root ports, and ports connected through point-to-point links as follows:
•Edge ports—If a port on a switch running RSTP is assigned to be a edge port, it will be put to forwarding immediately. However, the edge port will be in the RSTP initialization state and will send out the RSTP BPDUs with the operating status of edge port set to TRUE. If the edge port starts receiving the BPDUs, it will change the operating edge state to FALSE and start the spanning tree calculations. It is recommended to assign any ports that are to be left as a “leaf” of the LAN (with no connection to any bridge) as edge ports.
•Root ports—If the RSTP selects a new root port, it blocks the old root port and immediately transitions the new root port to the forwarding state.
•Point-to-point links—If you connect a port to another port through a point-to-point link and the local port becomes a designated port, it negotiates a rapid transition with the other port by using the proposal-agreement handshake to ensure a loop-free topology.
Note that if the link type of the port is not forced, the switch makes the decision of link type by operating duplex mode of the port. Also, a port with full-duplex mode is considered as a point-to-point link type, and a port in half-duplex mode is set as shared link type.
Enabling Rapid Spanning Tree
Use the spanning-tree rapid (802.1s) configuration mode command to enable rapid spanning tree on the switch.
Use the no form of the command to disable the rapid spanning tree. Note that by default, spanning mode will be legacy 802.1D spanning, If no spanning-tree rapid is used, 802.1D spanning tree is used..
Configuring Switch/Bridge Priority
Use the following configuration mode command to set the switch/bridge priority:
Switch(config)# spanning-tree priority <priority>
For <priority> the range is 0 to 61440 in increments of 4096; the default is 32768. The lower number is used when you want to specify the switch as the root switch.
Valid priority values are 0, 4096, 8192, 12288, 16384, 20480, 24576, 28672, 32768, 36864, 40960, 45056, 49152, 53248, 57344, and 61440. All other values are rejected.
To return the switch to its default setting, use the no spanning-tree priority configuration command.
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