Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product 6200 Dell
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MSTP INTER OPERABILITY OF THE DELL ™ PO WER CONNECT ™ 6200 SERIES SWIT CHES THIS WHITE PAPER IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY, AND MAY CONTAIN TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS AND TECHNICAL INACCURACIES. THE CONTENT IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND.
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 IEEE 802.1S MULTIPLE SPANNING TREE PROTOCOL OVERVI EW 3 DELL POWERCONNECT 62XX MSTP FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION 3 ACTIVE TOPOLOGY ENFORCEMENT 5 CONTROL PACKET BEHAVIOR 6 MSTP CLI CO.
3 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES 3 INTROD UCTION This paper describes the Mu ltiple Spanning Tree Protocol (M STP) support for Dell Po werConnect 62xx devices, which include the PC6224, PC6248, PC6224P, PC6248P, PC6224F, and M6220 switches.
4 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES The MST Configuration Identifier consists of the following compone.
5 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES 2. Ensuring that each FID supported b y the Bridge is allocated to exactly one Spanning Tree Instan ce. The Dell PowerConnect 62xx series switch implements this through the FID to MSTI Allocation Table.
6 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES CONTRO L P ACKET B EH AVIOR BPDU: Always transmitted as untagged. The port re ceives and transmits BPDUs in all three MSTP states: Discarding, Learning and Forwardi ng.
7 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES OPERATION IN THE NETWORK In the following diagram of a small, 802.
8 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES In this simple case, VLAN 10 could be associated with MSTI 1 w i t.
9 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES SAMPLE SET UP AND CONF IGURATIONS This section contains the CLI co.
10 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES Command Description exit Exit to configuration mode interface eth.
11 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES 1. From the Switching > VLAN > VLAN Membership page, click Add. 2. From the Add VLA N pa ge, enter 10 in the VLAN ID field and click A pply Change s .
12 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES 3. Add VLAN 20. 4. To configure Port g1 as a trunk po rt, go to the Sw itching > VLAN > Port Settings page, select Trunk from the Port VL AN Mode menu for Port g1, and click Apply Cha nges .
13 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES 5. On the Switching > VL AN > VLAN Membershi p page, select VLAN 10 from the Show VLAN menu. 6. Add port 1 to VLAN 10 as a tagged interface.
14 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES 7. Select VLAN 20 from the Show VLAN menu and add port 1 as a ta gged interface. 8. Repeat steps 4-7 to configure Port 2 as a Trunk port with VLAN me mbers 10 and 20.
15 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES 11. On the Sw itching > Spanning Tree > MST P Settings page, ente r Dell as the Region Name , 0 as the Priorit y , and click A ppl y Changes .
16 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES CONFIGURING BRIDGE BrB To configure Bridge BrB, use the same comm.
17 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES Command Description switchport mode trunk Enable trunking on the .
18 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES VIEWING THE MSTP STATUS You can view the MSTP Re gion config urat.
19 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES Bridge BrA (Dell) Dell_BrA#show spanning-tree mst-configuration N.
20 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES Bridge BrC (Cisco) Cisco3750_BrC#show spanning-tree active MST0 Spanning tree enabled protocol mstp Root ID Priority 32768 Address 0000.
21 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES Interface Role Sts Cost Prio.Nbr Type ---------- ---- --- ----- -------- ----- Gi1/0/1 Desg FWD 20000 128.1 P2p Gi1/0/2 Desg FWD 20000 128.
22 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES Bridge BrB (Dell) Dell_BrB#show spanning-tree active Spanning tre.
23 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES ###### MST 2 Vlan Mapped: 20 ROOT ID Address 00:02:00:15:62:10:29.
24 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES Figure 7: Mul tiple MSTP Regions In Figure 8, a third region has been added to the topology.
25 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES Figure 8: Mul tiple MSTP Region Interacti ons.
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