Before You Begin
Enter the
spanning-tree bpdufilter disable
command if the FEX ports are connected to a Cisco Nexus device.
Procedure
Purpose
Command or Action
Enters global configuration mode.
switch#
configure terminal
Step 1
Configures the number of seconds between generation of
config BPDUs for FEX ports. The fex-hello-time-value
range is from 2 to 12.
switch(config)#
spanning-tree vlan
vlan-id fex-hello-time
fex-hello-time-value
Step 2
If the global
hello-time
is two seconds (default)
and the
fex-hello-time
is two seconds, FEX port
BPDU is not sent.
Note
The following examples show how to configure the number of seconds between generation of config BPDUs
to 5 for VLAN 10..
switch#
configure terminal
switch(config)#
spanning-tree vlan 10 fex-hello-time 5
Verifying the STP Extension Configuration
Use the following commands to display the configuration information for the STP extensions.
Purpose
Command
Displays the current status of spanning tree on the
switch.
show running-config spanning-tree
[
all
]
Displays selected detailed information for the current
spanning tree configuration.
show spanning-tree
[
options
]
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Configuring STP Extensions
Verifying the STP Extension Configuration