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Catalyst 6500 Series Switch Software Configuration Guide—Release 8.7
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Specifying the Channel Path Cost
6-18
Specifying the Channel VLAN Cost
6-18
Configuring Channel Load Balancing
6-18
Clearing the LACP Statistics
6-18
Displaying EtherChannel Traffic Utilization
6-19
Displaying the Outgoing Ports for a Specified Address or Layer 4 Port Number
6-19
Disabling an EtherChannel
6-19
Displaying the Spanning-Tree Information for EtherChannels
6-20
Clearing and Restoring the EtherChannel Counters
6-20
Clearing the EtherChannel Counters
6-20
Restoring the EtherChannel Counters
6-21
C H A P T E R
7
Configuring Spanning Tree
7-1
Understanding How Spanning Tree Protocols Work
7-2
Understanding How a Topology is Created
7-3
Understanding How a Switch Becomes the Root Switch
7-3
Understanding How Bridge Protocol Data Units Work
7-4
Calculating and Assigning Port Costs
7-4
Spanning-Tree Port States
7-6
Understanding How PVST+ and MISTP Modes Work
7-12
PVST+ Mode
7-13
Rapid-PVST+
7-13
MISTP Mode
7-13
MISTP-PVST+ Mode
7-14
Understanding How Bridge Identifiers Work
7-14
MAC Address Allocation
7-14
MAC Address Reduction
7-15
Understanding How Multiple Spanning Tree Works
7-16
Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
7-18
MST-to-SST Interoperability
7-19
Common Spanning Tree
7-21
MST Instances
7-21
MST Configuration
7-21
MST Region
7-22
Message Age and Hop Count
7-23
MST-to-PVST+ Interoperability
7-24
Understanding How BPDU Skewing Works
7-24
Understanding How Layer 2 PDU Rate Limiting Works
7-25
Configuring PVST+ on the Switch
7-26