Information About Rapid Pvst - Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Configuration Manual

Configuring Rapid PVST+ Using Cisco NX-OS
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Information About Rapid PVST+

See the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series NX-OS Interfaces Configuration Guide, for information on creating
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Layer 2 interfaces.
The Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) was implemented to provide a loop-free network at Layer 2 of the network.
Rapid PVST+ is an updated implementation of STP that allows you to create one spanning tree topology for
each VLAN. Rapid PVST+ is the default STP mode on the device.
Spanning tree is used to refer to IEEE 802.1w and IEEE 802.1s. If the IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol
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is discussed in this publication, then 802.1D is stated specifically.
Information About Rapid PVST+, page 79
Licensing Requirements for Rapid PVST+, page 97
Prerequisites for Configuring Rapid PVST+, page 97
Guidelines and Limitations for Configuring Rapid PVST+, page 97
Default Settings for Rapid PVST+, page 97
Configuring Rapid PVST+, page 99
Verifying the Rapid PVST+ Configurations, page 112
Displaying and Clearing Rapid PVST+ Statistics -- CLI Version, page 113
Rapid PVST+ Example Configurations, page 113
Additional References for Rapid PVST+ -- CLI Version, page 113
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