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Configuring STP

Finding Feature Information

Your software release may not support all the features documented in this chapter. For the latest feature
information and caveats, see the release notes for your platform and software release.
Use Cisco Feature Navigator to find information about platform support an d Cisco software image
support. To access Cisco Feature Navigator, go to http://www.cisco.com/go/cfn. An account on
Cisco.com is not required.

Prerequisites for Configuring STP

When you configure VTP, you must configure a trunk port so that the switch can send and receive VTP
advertisements to and from other switches in the domain.
For more information, see the “Configuring an Ethernet Interface as a Trunk Port” section on
page 17-19.

Restrictions for Configuring STP

If you are configuring VTP on a cluster member switch to a VLAN, use the rcommand privileged
EXEC command to log in to the member switch.
In VTP versions 1 and 2, when you configure extended-range VLANs on the switch, the switch must
be in VTP transparent mode. VTP version 3 also supports creating extended-range VLANs in client
or server mode.

Information About Configuring STP

This chapter describes how to configure the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) on port-based VLANs on the
switch. The switch can use either the per-VLAN spanning-tree plu s (PVST+) protocol based on the IEEE
802.1D standard and Cisco proprietary extensions, or the rapid per-VLAN spanning-tree plus
(rapid-PVST+) protocol based on the IEEE 802.1w standard.