Dell 6200 manual Sample Setup And Configurations, CONFIGURING BRIDGE BrA CLI, Command, Description

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

SAMPLE SETUP AND CONFIGURATIONS

This section contains the CLI commands you would use to configure MSTP on the switches in Figure 6 where two bridges are Dell PowerConnect switches, and the third bridge is a Cisco Catalyst switch.

The three switches in the figure are as follows:

•BrA: Dell PowerConnect 6248

•BrB: Dell PowerConnect 6248

•BrC: CiscoCatalyst3750series

BrA is the root bridge for MSTP instance 1, and BrC is the root bridge for MSTP instance 2.

CONFIGURING BRIDGE BrA (CLI)

Use the commands in this section to configure the Dell PowerConnect 6248 as bridge BrA as shown in Figure 6.

Dell_BrA(config)#vlan database

Dell_BrA(config-vlan)#vlan 10,20

Dell_BrA(config-vlan)#exit

Dell_BrA(config)#interface ethernet 1/g1

Dell_BrA(config-if-1/g1)#switchport mode trunk

Dell_BrA(config-if-1/g1)#switchport trunk allowed vlan add 10,20

Dell_BrA(config-if-1/g1)#switchport trunk allowed vlan remove 1

Dell_BrA(config-if-1/g1)#exit

Dell_BrA(config)#interface ethernet 1/g2

Dell_BrA(config-if-1/g1)#switchport mode trunk

Dell_BrA(config-if-1/g1)#switchport trunk allowed vlan add 10,20

Dell_BrA(config-if-1/g1)#switchport trunk allowed vlan remove 1

Dell_BrA(config-if-1/g1)#exit

Dell_BrA(config)#spanning-tree mode mstp

Dell_BrA(config)#spanning-tree mst 1 priority 0

Dell_BrA(config)#spanning-tree mst configuration

Dell_BrA(config-mst)#name Dell

Dell_BrA(config-mst)#instance 1 add vlan 10

Dell_BrA(config-mst)#instance 2 add vlan 20

Dell_BrA(config-mst)#exit

Command	Description
vlan database	Enter VLAN command mode
vlan 10, 20	Create VLANs 10 and 20
exit	Exit to configuration mode
interface Ethernet 1/g1	Enter interface configuration mode for the
	Ethernet interface on slot 1, port 1
switchport mode trunk	Configure the VLAN membership mode
	for the port as a trunk (a trunk port
	connects two switches)
switchport trunk allowed	Add VLANs 10 and 20 to the trunk port
vlan add 10, 20
switchport trunk allowed	Remove VLAN 1 (the default VLAN) from
vlan remove 1	the trunk port

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