April | Dell 6200 instruction

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MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCONNECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES

1.From the Switching > VLAN > VLAN Membership page, click Add.

2.From the Add VLAN page, enter 10 in the VLAN ID field and click Apply Changes.

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WITH CISCO IOS OR CISCO CATOS BASED SWITCHES Information in this document is subject to change without noticeMSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL POWERCONNECT 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WEB CONFIGURATION CONTENTSVOICE VLAN CONFIGURATION CLI CONFIGURATION APRIL DELL POWERCONNECT 62XX MSTP FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION Active Topology Admin Port StateSTP Port State MSTP Port State Figure 3 Example Resultant VID to MSTI Allocation ACTIVE TOPOLOGY ENFORCEMENTFigure 2 Example FID to MSTI Allocation show spanning-tree MSTP CLI COMMANDSCONTROL PACKET BEHAVIOR Figure 5 Single STP Topology OPERATION IN THE NETWORKFigure 4 Small Bridged Network Figure 6 Logical MSTP Environment Description SAMPLE SETUP AND CONFIGURATIONSCONFIGURING BRIDGE BrA CLI Command CONFIGURING BRIDGE BrA WEB INTERFACE APRIL APRIL APRIL 10. Click Apply Changes 12. Click Show All to access the MSTP Settings Table CONFIGURING BRIDGE BrC CONFIGURING BRIDGE BrB CONFIGURING EDGE DEVICES show spanning-tree mst configuration ADDITIONAL MSTP STATUS INFORMATION Bridge BrA DellBridge BrB Dell Bridge BrC Cisco Priority Bridge BrA Dell APRIL Bridge BrB Dell ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND SCALABILITY WITH MORE REGIONS Figure 7 Multiple MSTP Regions Figure 8 Multiple MSTP Region Interactions