Dell 8 - Chapter 11 Spanning Tree Protocol Commands; Bridge-Priority

Dell Converged Enhanced Ethernet Command Reference 157
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Chapter
11
Spanning Tree Protocol Commands
bridge-priority
Specifies the priority of the bridge.
Synopsis bridge-priority priority
no bridge-priority
Operands priority Specifies the bridge priority. The range of valid values is 0-61440.
Defaults The default priority is 32678.
Command
Modes
Protocol Spanning Tree mode
Description Use this command to set the bridge priority for the common instance. Using a lower priority value
indicates that the bridge might become root. Use the no bridge-priority command to return to the
default settings.
Usage
Guidelines
This command must be used to specify the priority of the bridge. The priority values can be set only
in increments of 4096.
Examples To specify the bridge priority:
switch#configure terminal
switch(config)#protocol spanning-tree stp
switch(conf-stp)#bridge-priority 8192
switch#configure terminal
switch(config)#protocol spanning-tree rstp
switch(conf-rstp)#bridge-priority 8192
switch#configure terminal
switch(config)#protocol spanning-tree mstp
switch(conf-mstp)#bridge-priority 8192
see Also protocol spanning-tree