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GE Reason Switches Chapter 7
– Configuration
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Figure 83: Topology to be configured in a RSTP environment
At this topology, all switches are considered to be RSTP-aware switches, that is, all
switches can participate on Root election and use its values to the logical
architecture.
Reason Switches are equipment that has support to Spanning Tree Protocols, such
as STP, RSTP and MSTP. By default, MSTP protocol is set as the protocol to solve loops
at the network. For these applications, there is no major configuration that is
necessary to be performed except to change protocol version to RSTP, as default
configuration is ready to send and receive BPDU packets and then use it to solve
loops in the network. Default settings of Reason Switches are as follows:

Bridge Settings:
o
Protocol used is MSTP;
o
Bridge Priority is 32768;
o
Forward delay is 15;
o
Maximum age is 20;
o
Maximum hop count is 20.

Ports Settings:
o
STP usage on all ports is enabled;
o
Path cost on all ports is auto;
o
Priority of all ports are 128;