From: Brian McGahan (bmcgahan@internetworkexpert.com)
Date: Sun Nov 14 2004 - 14:16:13 GMT-3
Mike,
If all the ports are designated then it is the root bridge.
Some platforms also show this as a cost of 0 to the root. The 3550 in
your below output shows "This bridge is the root".
HTH,
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf
Of
> Mike Flanagan
> Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 10:57 AM
> To: Ccielab
> Subject: IE Lab 8 task 1.7
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a quick question on IE Lab 8 task 1.7. It asks to forward
traffic
> for all Vlan's over port fa0/14 and to do this config on the root
bridge.
> Now to find out what the root bridge is couldn9t you just use the show
> spanning tree vlan command and if all of the ports are forwarding it
is
> the
> root bridge correct ?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Mike F.
>
>
> Rack1SW2#show spanning-tree vlan 1
>
> VLAN0001
> Spanning tree enabled protocol ieee
> Root ID Priority 32769
> Address 000d.290c.d280
> This bridge is the root
> Hello Time 2 sec Max Age 20 sec Forward Delay 15 sec
>
> Bridge ID Priority 32769 (priority 32768 sys-id-ext 1)
> Address 000d.290c.d280
> Hello Time 2 sec Max Age 20 sec Forward Delay 15 sec
> Aging Time 300
>
> Interface Role Sts Cost Prio.Nbr Type
> ---------------- ---- --- --------- --------
> --------------------------------
> Fa0/13 Desg FWD 19 128.13 P2p
> Fa0/14 Desg FWD 19 128.14 P2p
> Fa0/15 Desg FWD 19 128.15 P2p
>
> Rack1SW2#
>
>
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