Dell Force10 S4810P - Configure an Edgeport

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• Port priority influences the likelihood that a port will be selected to be a forwarding port in case that
several ports have the same port cost.
To change the port cost or priority of an interface, use the following commands:
View the current values for interface parameters using the
show spanning-tree rstp command from EXEC
privilege mode. See Figure 42-5.
Configure an EdgePort
The EdgePort feature enables interfaces to begin forwarding traffic approximately 30 seconds sooner. In
this mode an interface forwards frames by default until it receives a BPDU that indicates that it should
behave otherwise; it does not go through the Learning and Listening states. The
bpduguard
shutdown-on-violation
option causes the interface hardware to be shutdown when it receives a BPDU. When
only
bpduguard is implemented, although the interface is placed in an Error Disabled state when receiving
the BPDU, the physical interface remains up and spanning-tree will drop
packets in the hardware after a
BPDU violation. BPDUs are dropped in the software after receiving the BPDU violation. This feature is
the same as PortFast mode in Spanning Tree.
To enable EdgePort on an interface, use the following command:
Verify that EdgePort is enabled on a port using the
show spanning-tree rstp command from the EXEC
privilege mode or the
show config command from INTERFACE mode; Dell Force10 recommends using the
show config command, as shown in Figure 42-7.
Task Command Syntax Command Mode
Change the port cost of an interface.
Range: 0 to 65535
Default: see Table 42-2.
spanning-tree rstp cost cost INTERFACE
Change the port priority of an interface.
Range: 0 to 15
Default: 128
spanning-tree rstp priority priority-value INTERFACE
Caution: Configure EdgePort only on links connecting to an end station. EdgePort can cause loops if it is enabled
on an interface connected to a network.
Task Command Syntax Command Mode
Enable EdgePort on an interface.
spanning-tree rstp edge-port
[bpduguard |
shutdown-on-violation
]
INTERFACE