Dell PowerConnect 54 Series, User Manual

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Configuring Device Information
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Defining Rapid STP Parameters Using CLI Commands
The following table summarizes the equivalent CLI commands for defining Rapid STP parameters as
displayed in the
Rapid Spanning Tree (RSTP) page.
The following is an example of the CLI commands:
Configuring Multiple Spanning Tree
MSTP operation maps VLANs into STP instances. Multiple Spanning Tree provides differing load
balancing scenario. For example, while port A is blocked in one STP instance, the same port is placed in the
Forwarding State in another STP instance.
In addition, packets assigned to various VLANs are transmitted along different paths within Multiple
Spanning Trees Regions (MST Regions). Regions are one or more Multiple Spanning Tree bridges by which
frames can be transmitted. To open the
MSTP Settings page, click Switch
→
Spanning Tree
→
MSTP
Settings in the tree view .
Table 7-22. RSTP Settings CLI Command
CLI Command Description
spanning-tree link-type { point-to-point | shared } Overrides the default link-type setting.
spanning tree mode { stp | rstp } Configure the spanning tree protocol currently
running.
clear spanning-tree detected-protocols [ ethernet interface | port-
channel port-channel-number ]
Restarts the protocol migration process.
show spanning-tree [ ethernet interface | port-channel port-
channel-number ]
Displays spanning tree configuration.
Console(config)# interface ethernet g5
Console(config-if)# spanning-tree link-type shared