HP Cisco Nexus 5000 Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch CLI Software Configuration - Page 138

Information About Rapid PVST+ Chapter 8 Configuring Rapid PVST+ Send feedback to [email protected] STP MAC Address Allocation Note Extended system ID and MAC address reduction is always enabled on the software. With MAC address reduction enabled on any switch, you should also enable MAC address reduction on all other connected switches to avoid undesirable root bridge election and spanning tree topology issues. When MAC address reduction is enabled, the root bridge priority becomes a multiple of 4096 plus the VLAN ID. You can only specify a switch bridge ID (used by the spanning tree algorithm to determine the identity of the root bridge, the lowest being preferred) as a multiple of 4096. Only the following values are possible: •0 • 4096 • 8192 • 12288 • 16384 • 20480 • 24576 • 28672 • 32768 • 36864 • 40960 • 45056 • 49152 • 53248 • 57344 • 61440 STP uses the extended system ID plus a MAC address to make the bridge ID unique for each VLAN. Note If another bridge in the same spanning tree domain does not run the MAC address reduction feature, it could achieve root bridge ownership because its bridge ID may fall between the values specified by the MAC address reduction feature. Understanding BPDUs Switches transmit bridge protocol data units (BPDUs) throughout the STP instance. Each switch sends configuration BPDUs to communicate and compute the spanning tree topology. Each configuration BPDU contains the following minimal information: • The unique bridge ID of the switch that the transmitting switch determines is the root bridge • The STP path cost to the root • The bridge ID of the transmitting bridge • Message age Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch CLI Software Configuration Guide 8-4 OL-16597-01