Chapter

Spanning Tree Protocol Commands

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bridge-priority

 

Specifies the priority of the bridge.

Synopsis

bridge-priority priority

 

 

no bridge-priority

 

Operands

priority

Specifies the bridge priority. The range of valid values is 0-61440.

Defaults

The default priority is 32678.

Command

Protocol Spanning Tree mode

Modes

 

 

Description

Use this command to set the bridge priority for the common instance. Using a lower priority value

 

indicates that the bridge might become root. Use the no bridge-prioritycommand to return to the

 

default settings.

 

Usage

This command must be used to specify the priority of the bridge. The priority values can be set only

Guidelines

in increments of 4096.

Examples

To specify the bridge priority:

 

switch#configure terminal

 

switch(config)#protocol spanning-tree stp

 

switch(conf-stp)#bridge-priority 8192

 

switch#configure terminal

 

switch(config)#protocol spanning-tree rstp

 

switch(conf-rstp)#bridge-priority 8192

 

switch#configure terminal

 

switch(config)#protocol spanning-tree mstp

 

switch(conf-mstp)#bridge-priority 8192

see Also

protocol spanning-tree

Converged Enhanced Ethernet Command Reference

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