Disabling Spanning Tree; Configuring The Root Switch - Cisco Catalyst 2960 Software Configuration Manual

Configuring Spanning-Tree Features

Disabling Spanning Tree

Spanning tree is enabled by default on VLAN 1 and on all newly created VLANs up to the spanning-tree
limit specified in the
only if you are sure there are no loops in the network topology.
When spanning tree is disabled and loops are present in the topology, excessive traffic and indefinite
Caution
packet duplication can drastically reduce network performance.
Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to disable spanning-tree on a per-VLAN basis.
This procedure is optional.
Command
Step 1 configure terminal
Step 2
no spanning-tree vlan vlan-id
Step 3 end
Step 4 show spanning-tree vlan vlan-id
Step 5 copy running-config startup-config
To re-enable spanning-tree, use the spanning-tree vlan vlan-id global configuration command.

Configuring the Root Switch

The switch maintains a separate spanning-tree instance for each active VLAN configured on it. A bridge
ID, consisting of the switch priority and the switch MAC address, is associated with each instance. For
each VLAN, the switch with the lowest bridge ID becomes the root switch for that VLAN.
To configure a switch to become the root for the specified VLAN, use the spanning-tree vlan vlan-id
root global configuration command to modify the switch priority from the default value (32768) to a
significantly lower value. When you enter this command, the software checks the switch priority of the
root switches for each VLAN. Because of the extended system ID support, the switch sets its own
priority for the specified VLAN to 24576 if this value will cause this switch to become the root for the
specified VLAN.
If any root switch for the specified VLAN has a switch priority lower than 24576, the switch sets its own
priority for the specified VLAN to 4096 less than the lowest switch priority. (4096 is the value of the
least-significant bit of a 4-bit switch priority value as shown in
The spanning-tree vlan vlan-id root global configuration command fails if the value necessary to be the
Note
root switch is less than 1.
If your network consists of switches that both do and do not support the extended system ID, it is unlikely
Note
that the switch with the extended system ID support will become the root switch. The extended system
ID increases the switch priority value every time the VLAN number is greater than the priority of the
connected switches running older software.
Catalyst 2960 and 2960-S Switches Software Configuration Guide, Release 15.0(1)SE
16-16
"Supported Spanning-Tree Instances" section on page
Purpose
Enter global configuration mode.
For vlan-id, the range is 1 to 4094.
Return to privileged EXEC mode.
Verify your entries.
(Optional) Save your entries in the configuration file.
Chapter 16 Configuring STP
16-10. Disable spanning tree
Table 16-1 on page 16-5.)
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