Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Configuration Guide

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Chapter 20 Configuring STP and MST
Configuring STP
Port 324 (FastEthernet6/4) of VLAN1 is listening
Port path cost 19, Port priority 128, Port Identifier 129.68.
Designated root has priority 8192, address 0030.94fc.0a00
Designated bridge has priority 8192, address 0030.94fc.0a00
Designated port id is 129.68, designated path cost 0
Timers:message age 0, forward delay 5, hold 0
Number of transitions to forwarding state:0
BPDU:sent 6, received 102
Switch#
Note Because the bridge priority is now set at 8192, this switch becomes the root of the spanning tree.
Configuring a Secondary Root Switch
When you configure a switch as the secondary root, the spanning tree bridge priority is modified from
the default value (32,768) to 16,384. This means that the switch is likely to become the root bridge for
the specified VLANs if the primary root bridge fails (assuming the other switches in the network use the
default bridge priority of 32,768).
You can run this command on more than one switch to configure multiple backup root switches. Use the
same network diameter and hello time values that you used when configuring the primary root switch.
Note We recommend that you avoid manually configuring the hello time, forward delay time, and maximum
age time after configuring the switch as the root bridge.
To configure a switch as the secondary root switch, perform this task:
This example shows how to configure the switch as the secondary root switch for VLAN 10, with a
network diameter of 4:
Switch# configure terminal
Switch(config)# spanning-tree vlan 10 root secondary diameter 4
VLAN 10 bridge priority set to 16384
VLAN 10 bridge max aging time set to 14
VLAN 10 bridge hello time unchanged at 2
VLAN 10 bridge forward delay set to 10
Switch(config)# end
Switch#
This example shows how to verify the configuration of VLAN 1:
Switch#sh spanning-tree vlan 1
VLAN0001
Spanning tree enabled protocol ieee
Root ID Priority 32768
Address 0003.6b10.e800
This bridge is the root
Command Purpose
Step 1
Switch(config)# [no] spanning-tree vlan vlan_ID
root secondary [diameter hops [hello-time
seconds]]
Configures a switch as the secondary root switch.
Use the no keyword to restore the defaults.
Step 2
Switch(config)# end
Exits configuration mode.

Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Specifications

General

Series	Catalyst 4500 Series
Category	Switch
Layer Support	Layer 2, Layer 3
Form Factor	Modular chassis
Stackable	No
Chassis Slots	3, 6, 7, 10
Power Supply Options	AC, DC
Redundancy	Power supply, Supervisor engine
Network Management	Cisco IOS Software CLI, SNMP, Cisco Prime Infrastructure
Features	Security, QoS
Port Density	Up to 384 ports per chassis
Security Features	802.1X, ACLs, DHCP Snooping, Dynamic ARP Inspection, IP Source Guard
Supervisor Engine	8-E