Dell PowerConnect 8132

26 Contents
MSTP with Multiple Forwarding Paths . . . . . . 625
What are the Optional STP Features?
. . . . . . 626
Default STP Values. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629
Configuring Spanning Tree (Web) . . . . . . . . . . . 630
STP Global Settings
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630
STP Port Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632
STP LAG Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634
Rapid Spanning Tree
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635
MSTP Settings
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638
MSTP Interface Settings
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 640
Configuring Spanning Tree (CLI) . . . . . . . . . . . . 642
Configuring Global STP Bridge Settings
. . . . . 642
Configuring Optional STP Features . . . . . . . . 643
Configuring STP Interface Settings
. . . . . . . . 644
Configuring MSTP Switch Settings . . . . . . . . 645
Configuring MSTP Interface Settings . . . . . . 646
STP Configuration Examples
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647
Configuring STP
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647
Configuring MSTP
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649
24 Discovering Network Devices . . . . . . . . 651
Device Discovery Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651
What Is ISDP?
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651
What is LLDP?
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651
What is LLDP-MED? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652
Why are Device Discovery Protocols
Needed?
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652