Administrator Guide

Conguring Root Guard
Enable STP root guard on a per-port or per-port-channel basis.
Dell Networking OS Behavior: The following conditions apply to a port enabled with STP root guard:
• Root guard is supported on any STP-enabled port or port-channel interface except when used as a stacking port.
• Root guard is supported on a port in any Spanning Tree mode:
• Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
• Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)
• Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)
• Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus (PVST+)
• When enabled on a port, root guard applies to all VLANs congured on the port.
• You cannot enable root guard and loop guard at the same time on an STP port. For example, if you congure root guard on a port on
which loop guard is already congured, the following error message displays: • % Error: LoopGuard is configured.
Cannot configure RootGuard.
• When used in an MSTP network, if root guard blocks a boundary port in the CIST, the port is also blocked in all other MST instances.
To enable the root guard on an STP-enabled port or port-channel interface in instance 0, use the following command.
• Enable root guard on a port or port-channel interface.
INTERFACE mode or INTERFACE PORT-CHANNEL mode
spanning-tree {0 | mstp | rstp | pvst} rootguard
• 0: enables root guard on an STP-enabled port assigned to instance 0.
• mstp: enables root guard on an MSTP-enabled port.
• rstp: enables root guard on an RSTP-enabled port.
• pvst: enables root guard on a PVST-enabled port.
To disable STP root guard on a port or port-channel interface, use the no spanning-tree 0 rootguard command in an interface
conguration mode.
To verify the STP root guard conguration on a port or port-channel interface, use the show spanning-tree 0 guard
[interface
interface] command in a global conguration mode.
Enabling SNMP Traps for Root Elections and Topology
Changes
To enable SNMP traps individually or collectively, use the following commands.
• Enable SNMP traps for spanning tree state changes.
snmp-server enable traps stp
• Enable SNMP traps for RSTP, MSTP, and PVST+ collectively.
snmp-server enable traps xstp
Conguring Spanning Trees as Hitless
You can congure STP, RSTP, MSTP, and PVST+ to be hitless (congure all or none as hitless). When congured as hitless, critical protocol
state information is synchronized between the RPMs so that RPM failover is seamless and no topology change is triggered.
To be hitless per spanning tree type or for all spanning tree types, use the following commands.
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
931