Spanning-tree extend system-id – Dell POWEREDGE M1000E User Manual

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spanning-tree extend system-id

spanning-tree extend system-id

Use the spanning-tree extend system-id global configuration command on the switch stack or on a
standalone switch to enable the extended system ID feature.

spanning-tree extend system-id

Note

Though visible in the command-line help strings, the no version of this command is not supported. You
cannot disable the extended system ID feature.

Syntax Description

This command has no arguments or keywords.

Defaults

The extended system ID is enabled.

Command Modes

Global configuration

Command History

Usage Guidelines

The switch supports the IEEE 802.1t spanning-tree extensions. Some of the bits previously used for the
switch priority are now used for the extended system ID (VLAN identifier for the per-VLAN
spanning-tree plus [PVST+] and rapid PVST+ or as an instance identifier for the multiple spanning tree
[MST]).

The spanning tree uses the extended system ID, the switch priority, and the allocated spanning-tree MAC
address to make the bridge ID unique for each VLAN or multiple spanning-tree instance. Because the
switch stack appears as a single switch to the rest of the network, all switches in the stack use the same
bridge ID for a given spanning tree. If the stack master fails, the stack members recalculate their bridge
IDs of all running spanning trees based on the new MAC address of the stack master.

Support for the extended system ID affects how you manually configure the root switch, the secondary
root switch, and the switch priority of a VLAN. For more information, see the

“spanning-tree mst root”

and the

“spanning-tree vlan”

sections.

If your network consists of switches that do not support the extended system ID and switches that do
support it, it is unlikely 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.

Release

Modification

12.2(40)EX1

This command was introduced.

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