Changing The Region Name Or Revision; Modifying Global Parameters - Dell S4048–ON Configuration Manual

Changing the Region Name or Revision

To change the region name or revision, use the following commands.
• Change the region name.
PROTOCOL MSTP mode
name name
• Change the region revision number.
PROTOCOL MSTP mode
revision number
Example of the name Command
To view the current region name and revision, use the show spanning-tree mst configuration command from EXEC Privilege
mode.
Dell(conf-mstp)#name my-mstp-region
Dell(conf-mstp)#exit
Dell(conf)#do show spanning-tree mst config
MST region name: my-mstp-region
Revision: 0
MSTI VID
1 100
2 200-300

Modifying Global Parameters

The root bridge sets the values for forward-delay, hello-time, max-age, and max-hops and overwrites the values set on other MSTP
bridges.
• Forward-delay — the amount of time an interface waits in the Listening state and the Learning state before it transitions to the
Forwarding state.
• Hello-time — the time interval in which the bridge sends MSTP bridge protocol data units (BPDUs).
• Max-age — the length of time the bridge maintains configuration information before it refreshes that information by recomputing the
MST topology.
• Max-hops — the maximum number of hops a BPDU can travel before a receiving switch discards it.
NOTE: Dell Networking recommends that only experienced network administrators change MSTP parameters. Poorly planned
modification of MSTP parameters can negatively affect network performance.
To change the MSTP parameters, use the following commands on the root bridge.
1 Change the forward-delay parameter.
PROTOCOL MSTP mode
forward-delay seconds
The range is from 4 to 30.
The default is 15 seconds.
2 Change the hello-time parameter.
PROTOCOL MSTP mode
hello-time seconds
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