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Configuration procedure
To configure a port as an edge port:
Step Command Remarks
1.
Enter system view.
system-view
N/A
2.
Enter Layer 2 Ethernet or
aggregate interface view.
interface
interface-type interface-number
N/A
3.
Configure the current ports as
edge ports.
stp
edged-port
By default, all ports are
non-edge ports.
Configuring path costs of ports
Path cost is a parameter related to the rate of a port. On a spanning tree device, a port can have different
path costs in different MSTIs. Setting appropriate path costs allows VLAN traffic flows to be forwarded
along different physical links, achieving VLAN-based load balancing.
You can have the device automatically calculate the default path cost, or you can configure the path cost
for ports.
Specifying a standard for the device to use when it calculates
the default path cost
CAUTION:
If you change the standard that the device uses to calculate the default path costs, you restore the path
costs to the default.
You can specify a standard for the device to use in automatic calculation for the default path cost. The
device supports the following standards:
•
dot1d-1998
—The device calculates the default path cost for ports based on IEEE 802.1d-1998.
•
dot1t
—The device calculates the default path cost for ports based on IEEE 802.1t.
•
legacy
—The device calculates the default path cost for ports based on a private standard.
When you specify a standard for the device to use when it calculates the default path cost, follow these
guidelines:
•
When it calculates the path cost for an aggregate interface, IEEE 802.1t takes into account the
number of Selected ports in its aggregation group. However, IEEE 802.1d-1998 does not take into
account the number of Selected ports. The calculation formula of IEEE 802.1t is: Path cost =
200,000,000/link speed (in 100 kbps), where link speed is the sum of the link speed values of the
Selected ports in the aggregation group.
•
IEEE 802.1d-1998 or the private standard always assigns the smallest possible value to a single port
or aggregate interface with a speed exceeding 10 Gbps. The forwarding path selected based on
this criterion might not be the best one. To solve this problem, perform one of the following actions:
{
Use
dot1t
as the standard for default path cost calculation.
{
Manually set the path cost for the port (see "
Configuring path costs of ports
").