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VLAN configuration and management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Enabling and disabling an interface port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Configuring the MTU on an interface port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Creating a VLAN interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Enabling STP on a VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Disabling STP on a VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Configuring a VLAN interface to forward FCoE traffic . . . . . . . . 49 Configuring an interface port as a Layer 2 switch port . . . . . . . 50 Configuring an interface port as an access interface . . . . . . . . 50 Configuring an interface port as a trunk interface . . . . . . . . . . 50 Disabling a VLAN on a trunk interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Configuring an interface port as a converged interface . . . . . . 51 Disabling a VLAN on a converged interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Configuring protocol-based VLAN classifier rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Configuring a VLAN classifier rule. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Configuring MAC address-based VLAN classifier rules . . . . . . . 53 Deleting a VLAN classifier rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Creating a VLAN classifier group and adding rules . . . . . . . . . . 53 Activating a VLAN classifier group with an interface port . . . . . 54 Clearing VLAN counter statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Displaying VLAN information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Configuring the MAC address table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Specifying or disabling the aging time for MAC addresses . . . . 55 Adding static addresses to the MAC address table . . . . . . . . . . 55

Chapter 7	Configuring STP, RSTP, and MSTP
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STP overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Configuring STP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

RSTP overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

MSTP overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Configuring MSTP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

STP, RSTP, and MSTP configuration guidelines and restrictions . . . 63 Default STP, RSTP, and MSTP configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

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