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STP, RSTP, and MSTP configuration and management . . . . . . . . . . 51 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

Configuring STP, RSTP, or MSTP on CEE interface ports . . . . . . . . . 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

Chapter 6	Configuring Link Aggregation using the CEE CLI
	In this chapter	65
	Link aggregation overview	65
	Link Aggregation Group configuration	65
	Link Aggregation Control Protocol	68
	Dynamic link aggregation	68
	Static link aggregation	68
	Brocade-proprietary aggregation	68
	LAG distribution process	68

LACP configuration guidelines and restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Default LACP configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

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