From: Steve Navesey (s.navesey@matriks-ltd.co.uk)
Date: Fri Jan 25 2008 - 14:03:47 ARST
Setting the VLAN priority to 0 should ensure that the switch is always the
root bridge for this VLAN. If you are still having difficulty maybe look at
the rest of your topology to make sure that no other switch is already set
to priority 0 for that VLAN.
Cheers,
Steve.
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
sheherezada@gmail.com
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 10:11 AM
To: Syed Ali
Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: Root Bridge
Sorry, it seems that you have already tried that :(
On Jan 24, 2008 12:08 PM, <sheherezada@gmail.com> wrote:
> Try spanning-tree vlan <> root primary. Under normal circumstances,
> the bridge priority changes to 8192. If your switch still does not
> become the root, then the bridge priority changes to 100 _less_ than
> the current root.
>
> Mihai
>
>
> On Jan 23, 2008 2:26 PM, Syed Ali <testcricket@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello All,
> > I am trying to make this switch a root. I have given it
the
> > highest priority, still cannot make it the roo and get the following
error
> > msg. Can you please help?
> >
> > thanks
> > Ali
> >
> > SW1(config)#spanning-tree vlan 1 root pri
> > % Failed to make the bridge root for vlan 1
> > % It may be possible to make the bridge root by setting the priority
> > % for some (or all) of these instances to zero.
> > SW1(config)#
> >
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