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MSTP INTER OPERABILITY OF THE DELL ™ PO WER CONNECT ™ 6200 SERIES SWIT CHES THIS WHITE PAPER IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY, AND MAY CONTAIN TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS AND TECHNICAL INACCURACIES. THE CONTENT IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITHOUT EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. Dell and PowerConnect are trademarks of Dell Inc. Other trademarks and[...]
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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 IEEE 802.1S MULTIPLE SPANNING TREE PROTOCOL OVERVI EW 3 DELL POWERCONNECT 62XX MSTP FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION 3 ACTIVE TOPOLOGY ENFORCEMENT 5 CONTROL PACKET BEHAVIOR 6 MSTP CLI COMMANDS 6 OPERATION IN THE NETWORK 7 SAMPLE SETUP AND CONFIGURATIONS 9 CONFIGURING BRIDGE BrA (WEB INTERFACE) 10 CONFIGURING BRIDGE BrB 16 CONFI GURING[...]
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3 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES 3 INTROD UCTION This paper describes the Mu ltiple Spanning Tree Protocol (M STP) support for Dell Po werConnect 62xx devices, which include the PC6224, PC6248, PC6224P, PC6248P, PC6224F, and M6220 switches. This doc[...]
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4 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES The MST Configuration Identifier consists of the following components: • Configuration Identifier Format Sele ctor – 1 byte value encoded as zero • Configuration Name – 32 byte string • Configuration Revisi[...]
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5 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES 2. Ensuring that each FID supported b y the Bridge is allocated to exactly one Spanning Tree Instan ce. The Dell PowerConnect 62xx series switch implements this through the FID to MSTI Allocation Table. The following[...]
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6 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES CONTRO L P ACKET B EH AVIOR BPDU: Always transmitted as untagged. The port re ceives and transmits BPDUs in all three MSTP states: Discarding, Learning and Forwardi ng. If MSTP is disabl ed for the device (manual for[...]
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7 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES OPERATION IN THE NETWORK In the following diagram of a small, 802.1d bridged network, STP is necessary to create an environment with full connectivity and w ithout loops: Figure 4: Small Bri dged Network Assume that [...]
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8 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES In this simple case, VLAN 10 could be associated with MSTI 1 w i th an active topology similar to Figure 5, and VLAN 20 could be associated with MSTI 2 where port Pt1 on both bridge BrA and BrB begin discarding and a[...]
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9 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES SAMPLE SET UP AND CONF IGURATIONS This section contains the CLI commands you woul d use to configure MSTP on the switches in Figure 6 where two bridg es are Dell PowerConnect switches, and the third bridge is a Cisco[...]
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10 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES Command Description exit Exit to configuration mode interface ethernet 1/g2 Enter interface configuration mode for the Ethernet interface on slot 1, port 2 switchport mode trunk Configure the VLAN membership mode fo[...]
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11 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES 1. From the Switching > VLAN > VLAN Membership page, click Add. 2. From the Add VLA N pa ge, enter 10 in the VLAN ID field and click A pply Change s .[...]
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12 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES 3. Add VLAN 20. 4. To configure Port g1 as a trunk po rt, go to the Sw itching > VLAN > Port Settings page, select Trunk from the Port VL AN Mode menu for Port g1, and click Apply Cha nges .[...]
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13 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES 5. On the Switching > VL AN > VLAN Membershi p page, select VLAN 10 from the Show VLAN menu. 6. Add port 1 to VLAN 10 as a tagged interface.[...]
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14 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES 7. Select VLAN 20 from the Show VLAN menu and add port 1 as a ta gged interface. 8. Repeat steps 4-7 to configure Port 2 as a Trunk port with VLAN me mbers 10 and 20. 9. From the Switching > Spann ing Tree > G[...]
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15 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES 11. On the Sw itching > Spanning Tree > MST P Settings page, ente r Dell as the Region Name , 0 as the Priorit y , and click A ppl y Changes . 12. Click Show All to access the MSTP Settings Table . 13. Click t[...]
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16 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES CONFIGURING BRIDGE BrB To configure Bridge BrB, use the same comman ds as you used to configure Bridge BrA with one exception: do not use the spanning-tree mst 1 priority 0 command on Bridge BrB because it is not a [...]
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17 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES Command Description switchport mode trunk Enable trunking on the interface exit Exit to configuration mode interface GigabitEthernet 1/0/2 Enter configuration mode for the interface on slot 1, port 2 switchport trun[...]
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18 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES VIEWING THE MSTP STATUS You can view the MSTP Re gion config uration on the three br idges by using the fo llowing comm and: show spanning-tree mst configuration The command is the same on the Dell and Cisco switche[...]
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19 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES Bridge BrA (Dell) Dell_BrA#show spanning-tree mst-configuration Name: Dell Revision: 0 Instance Vlan Mapped -------- ----------- 0 1 1 10 2 20 Bridge BrB (Dell) Dell_BrB#show spanning-tree mst-configuration Name: De[...]
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20 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES Bridge BrC (Cisco) Cisco3750_BrC#show spanning-tree active MST0 Spanning tree enabled protocol mstp Root ID Priority 32768 Address 0000.0000.0fff Cost 0 Port 1 (GigabitEthernet1/0/1) Hello Time 2 sec Max Age 20 sec [...]
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21 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES Interface Role Sts Cost Prio.Nbr Type ---------- ---- --- ----- -------- ----- Gi1/0/1 Desg FWD 20000 128.1 P2p Gi1/0/2 Desg FWD 20000 128.2 P2p Cisco3750_BrC# Bridge BrA (Dell) Dell_BrA# show spanning-tree active S[...]
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22 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES Bridge BrB (Dell) Dell_BrB#show spanning-tree active Spanning tree Enabled mode mstp CST Regional Root: 80:00:00:00:00:00:0F:FF Regional Root Path Cost: 20000 ###### MST 0 Vlan Mapped: 1 ROOT ID Address 80:00:00:00:[...]
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23 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES ###### MST 2 Vlan Mapped: 20 ROOT ID Address 00:02:00:15:62:10:29:00 Path Cost 20000 Root Port 1/g2 Hello Time 2 Sec Max Age 20 sec Forward Delay 15 sec Bridge ID Priority 32768 Address 80:02:00:84:00:00:0F:FF Hello[...]
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24 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES Figure 7: Mul tiple MSTP Regions In Figure 8, a third region has been added to the topology. Even though this new region only consists of one bridge and has an MST Configurat ion Identifier that matches the bridges [...]
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25 APRIL 2008 MSTP INTEROPERABILITY OF THE DELL™ POWERCON NECT™ 6200 SERIES SWITCHES WITH CISCO IOS AND CISCO CATOS-BASED SWITCHES Figure 8: Mul tiple MSTP Region Interacti ons[...]