
Operation Manual - STP
Quidway S3500 Series Ethernet Switches
Chapter 1 MSTP Region-configuration
Huawei Technologies Proprietary
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information, refer to the configuration tasks “Configure switching network diameter” and
“Configure the Hello Time of the switch”.
Note:
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You can configure the current switch as the root of several STIs, however, it is not
necessary to specify two or more roots for an STI. In other words, please do not
specify the root for an STI on two or more switches.
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You can configure more than one secondary root for a spanning tree through
specifying the secondary STI root on two or more switches.
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Generally, you are recommended to designate one primary root and more than one
secondary roots for a spanning tree.
By default, a switch is neither the primary root or the secondary root of the spanning
tree.
1.2.3 Configure the MSTP Running Mode
MSTP and RSTP are compatible and they can recognize the packets of each other.
However, STP cannot recognize MSTP packets. To implement the compatibility, MSTP
provides two operation modes, STP-compatible mode and MSTP mode. In
STP-compatible mode, the switch sends STP packets via every port and serves as a
region itself. In MSTP mode, the switch ports send MSTP or STP packets (when
connected to the STP switch) and the switch provides multiple spanning tree function.
You can use the following command to configure MSTP running mode. MSTP can
intercommunicate with STP. If there is STP switch in the switching network, you may
use the command to configure the current MSTP to run in STP-compatible mode,
otherwise, configure it to run in MSTP mode.
Perform the following configuration in system view.
Table 1-5
Configure the MSTP running mode
Operation
Command
Configure MSTP to run in STP-compatible mode
stp
mode stp
Configure MSTP to run in RSTP mode
stp
mode rstp
Configure MSTP to run in MSTP mode.
stp mode
mstp
Restore the default MSTP running mode
undo stp
mode