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Use the show spanning-tree brief command (Figure 10-118) to determine current bridge characteristics:
Figure 10-118. Example Output from spanning-tree brief Command
Use the show spanning-tree command to verify that STP has converged. In Figure 10-119, executing the
command on three participating switches shows that they have merged into one spanning tree, selecting
S50-1 as the root bridge:
Figure 10-119. Example Output from show spanning-tree Command
In Figure 10-119, all three switches point to S50-1 as the Designated Root (DR), by identifying the bridge
ID (MAC address — 00:01:E8:D5:A7:82) of S50-1 as the DR. Note also that the root path cost on the DR
is 0 (zero), while, on the two other S50s, the root path cost is 20000.
Force10 #show spanning-tree brief
Bridge Priority................................ 32768
Bridge Identifier.............................. 80:00:00:01:E8:D5:A7:82
Bridge Max Age................................. 20
Bridge Max Hops................................ 20
Bridge Hello Time.............................. 2
Bridge Forward Delay........................... 15
Bridge Hold Time............................... 3
S50-1 #show spanning-tree
Bridge Priority................................ 32768
Bridge Identifier.............................. 80:00:00:01:E8:D5:A7:82
Time Since Topology Change..................... 0 day 0 hr 0 min 19 sec
Topology Change Count.......................... 3
Topology Change in progress.................... TRUE
Designated Root................................ 80:00:00:01:E8:D5:A7:82
Root Path Cost................................. 0
S50-2 #show spanning-tree
Bridge Priority................................ 32768
Bridge Identifier.............................. 80:00:00:01:E8:D5:A7:BE
Time Since Topology Change..................... 0 day 0 hr 3 min 21 sec
Topology Change Count.......................... 2
Topology Change in progress.................... FALSE
Designated Root................................ 80:00:00:01:E8:D5:A7:82
Root Path Cost................................. 20000
S50-3 #show spanning-tree
Bridge Priority................................ 32768
Bridge Identifier.............................. 80:00:00:01:E8:D5:A8:D6
Time Since Topology Change..................... 0 day 0 hr 1 min 23 sec
Topology Change Count.......................... 2
Topology Change in progress.................... FALSE
Designated Root................................ 80:00:00:01:E8:D5:A7:82
Root Path Cost................................. 20000
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Bridge ID of root
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Bridge ID of root
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