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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

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Link aggregation overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Link Aggregation Group configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Link Aggregation Control Protocol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Dynamic link aggregation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Static link aggregation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Dell-proprietary aggregation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 LAG distribution process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

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

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