Mst-To-Pvst Interoperability - Cisco 7604 Configuration Manual

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Understanding How Prestandard IEEE 802.1s MST Works

MST-to-PVST Interoperability

A virtual bridged LAN may contain interconnected regions of single spanning tree (SST) and MST

Cisco 7600 Series Router Cisco IOS Software Configuration Guide, Release 12.2SX

MST establishes and maintains additional spanning trees within each MST region. These spanning

trees are referred to as MST instances (MSTIs). The IST is numbered 0, and the MSTIs are

numbered 1,2,3, and so on. Any MSTI is local to the MST region that is independent of MSTIs in

another region, even if the MST regions are interconnected. MST instances combine with the IST at

the boundary of MST regions to become the CST as follows:

Spanning tree information for an MSTI is contained in an MSTP record (M-record). M-records are

always encapsulated within MST BPDUs (MST BPDUs). The original spanning trees computed by

MSTP are called M-trees. M-trees are active only within the MST region. M-trees merge with the

IST at the boundary of the MST region and form the CST.

MST provides interoperability with PVST+ by generating PVST+ BPDUs for the non-CST VLANs.

MST supports some of the PVST+ extensions in MSTP as follows:

UplinkFast and BackboneFast are not available in MST mode; they are included in RSTP.

PortFast is supported.

BPDU filter and BPDU guard are supported in MST mode.

Loop guard and root guard are supported in MST. MST preserves the VLAN 1 disabled

functionality except that BPDUs are still transmitted in VLAN 1.

MST switches operate as if MAC reduction is enabled.

For private VLANs (PVLANs), secondary VLANs must be mapped to the same instance as the

shows this relationship.

Configuring STP and Prestandard IEEE 802.1s MST

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