Re: OT : Brocade switch config. doubt

Thanks Chris .
Your email was very informative .

In that case can you please please point me to MLX series documentation . It
will be very useful for me .I couldnt get one place to look at cli commands
that I am looking at .

Thanks
Gaurav Madan

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Chris Proctor <chris_at_cwproctor.net> wrote:

> Brocade/Foundry have gone through a few different CLI structures in regards
> to spanning tree. In some devices it is configured using "rstp <command>"
> and on others it will be under "802-1w <command>". In almost all cases they
> consider Rapid Spanning Tree and Spanning Tree to be different protocols.
>
> For instance, if you run "show spanning-tree" it will may tell you that
> spanning tree is not running but if you run "show 802-1w" or "show rstp" the
> same VLAN will show that it is running. This can cause some confusion for
> sure. Brocade/Foundry doesn't tree 802.1w or 802.1s as different "modes" of
> spanning tree but as different protocols which are mutually exclusive.
>
> I'd look at, for example, http://www.brocade.com/forms/**
> getFile?p=documents/product_**manuals/B_BigIron/BigIronRX_**
> 02800_ConfigGuide.pdf<http://www.brocade.com/forms/getFile?p=documents/product_manuals/B_BigIron/BigIronRX_02800_ConfigGuide.pdf>for the RX platform. The CLI in Brocade/Foundry land is not as consistent
> from platform to platform as some other vendors. Items such as link
> aggregation, QOS, rate limiting, etc... can vary widely in both location and
> configuration logic.
>
> The best advice I can give is to make sure you have the configuration guide
> and CLI guide for the platform and major software version you're working on.
>
>
> On 7/20/2011 11:16 AM, manoj nanda wrote:
>
>> Hi Gaurav: The untagged ethe<x/y> is the access port and part of vlan 6
>> and
>> tagged ethe ,x/y> is the trunk port which is also the part of Vlan 6.
>> router-interface ve 6 is equivalent to int vlan 6 (l3 interfaces) . I am
>> not
>> sure why it has rstp priority since the spanning tree is disabled which
>> should disable rstp as well!
>> r/Manoj
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:38 AM, GAURAV MADAN<gauravmadan1177_at_gmail.**com<gauravmadan1177_at_gmail.com>
>> >wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>>
>>> As I look in following configuration ; I would like to understand the
>>> config. result . Sorry for asking this question ; but this is first time
>>> I
>>> am working on NON-Cisco switches .
>>>
>>> Configuration
>>> ============
>>> !
>>> vlan 6 name TEST
>>> untagged ethe<x/y>
>>> tagged ethe<a/b>
>>> router-interface ve 6
>>> no spanning-tree
>>> rstp priority 1
>>> !
>>>
>>> Can someone ; please point me out the meaning of this config (i want to
>>> be
>>> 100 % sure on this) and if possible cisco equivalent .
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Gaurav Madan
>>>
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