Users Guide

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)

The commands in this section configure and monitor the IEEE 802.1d spanning tree protocol (STP) and are

supported on the Dell Networking switch/routing platform.

Topics:

• bridge-priority

• bpdu-destination-mac-address

• debug spanning-tree

• description

• disable

• forward-delay

• hello-time

• max-age

• protocol spanning-tree

• show config

• show spanning-tree 0

• spanning-tree

bridge-priority

Set the bridge priority of the switch in an IEEE 802.1D spanning tree.

Syntax

bridge-priority {priority-value | primary | secondary}

To return to the default value, use the no bridge-priority command.

Parameters

priority-value Enter a number as the bridge priority value. The range is from 0

to 65535. The default is 32768.

primary Enter the keyword primary to designate the bridge as the root

bridge.

secondary Enter the keyword secondary to designate the bridge as a

secondary root bridge.

Defaults priority-value = 32768

Command Modes SPANNING TREE (The prompt is “config-stp”.)

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) 1938