VLAN configuration and management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Enabling and disabling an interface port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Configuring the MTU on an interface port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Creating a VLAN interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Enabling STP on a VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Disabling STP on a VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Configuring a VLAN interface to forward FCoE traffic . . . . . . . . 36 Configuring an interface port as a Layer 2 switch port . . . . . . . 36 Configuring an interface port as an access interface . . . . . . . . 36 Configuring an interface port as a trunk interface . . . . . . . . . . 37 Disabling a VLAN on a trunk interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Configuring an interface port as a converged interface . . . . . . 37 Disabling a VLAN on a converged interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Configuring protocol-based VLAN classifier rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Configuring a VLAN classifier rule. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Configuring MAC address-based VLAN classifier rules . . . . . . . 39 Deleting a VLAN classifier rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Creating a VLAN classifier group and adding rules . . . . . . . . . . 39 Activating a VLAN classifier group with an interface port . . . . . 40 Clearing VLAN counter statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Displaying VLAN information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Configuring the MAC address table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Specifying or disabling the aging time for MAC addresses . . . . 41 Adding static addresses to the MAC address table . . . . . . . . . . 41

Chapter 6

Configuring STP, RSTP, and MSTP using the CEE CLI

 

 

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STP overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Configuring STP on Dell FCoE hardware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

RSTP overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

MSTP overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Configuring MSTP on Dell FCoE hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

STP, RSTP, and MSTP configuration guidelines and restrictions . . . 49 Default STP, RSTP, and MSTP configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

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