Bridge Id, Switch Priority, And Extended System Id; Spanning-Tree Timers - Cisco Catalyst 2950 Software Configuration Manual
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Understanding Spanning-Tree Features
Bridge ID, Switch Priority, and Extended System ID
The IEEE 802.1D standard requires that each switch has an unique bridge identifier (bridge ID), which
determines the selection of the root switch. Because each VLAN is considered as a different logical
bridge with PVST+, the same switch must have as many different bridge IDs as VLANs configured on
it. Each VLAN on the switch has a unique 8-byte bridge ID; the two most-significant bytes are used for
the switch priority, and the remaining six bytes are derived from the switch MAC address.
In Release 12.1(9)EA1 and later, Catalyst 2950 switches support the 802.1T spanning-tree extensions,
and some of the bits previously used for the switch priority are now used as the VLAN identifier. The
result is that fewer MAC addresses are reserved for the switch, and a larger range of VLAN IDs can be
supported, all while maintaining the uniqueness of the bridge ID. As shown in
previously used for the switch priority are reallocated into a 4-bit priority value and a 12-bit extended
system ID value equal to the VLAN ID. In earlier releases, the switch priority is a 16-bit value.
Table 10-1 Switch Priority Value and Extended System ID
Switch Priority Value
Bit 16
Bit 15
Bit 14
32768
16384
8192
Spanning tree uses the extended system ID, the switch priority, and the allocated spanning-tree MAC
address to make the bridge ID unique for each VLAN. With earlier releases, spanning tree used one MAC
address per VLAN to make the bridge ID unique for each VLAN.
Support for the extended system ID affects how you manually configure the root switch, the secondary
root switch, and the switch priority of a VLAN. For more information, see the
Switch" section on page
"Configuring the Switch Priority of a VLAN" section on page
Spanning-Tree Timers
Table 10-2
Table 10-2 Spanning-Tree Timers
Variable
Description
Hello timer
Determines how often the switch broadcasts hello messages to other switches.
Forward-delay timer
Determines how long each of the listening and learning states last before the interface begins
forwarding.
Maximum-age timer
Determines the amount of time the switch stores protocol information received on an interface.
Catalyst 2950 Desktop Switch Software Configuration Guide
10-4
Extended System ID (Set Equal to the VLAN ID)
Bit 13
Bit 12
Bit 11
Bit 10
4096
2048
1024
512
10-12,
describes the timers that affect the entire spanning-tree performance.
Bit 9
Bit 8
Bit 7
256
128
64
"Configuring a Secondary Root Switch" section on page
Chapter 10
Table
10-1, the two bytes
Bit 6
Bit 5
Bit 4
Bit 3
32
16
8
4
"Configuring the Root
10-17.
Configuring STP
Bit 2
Bit 1
2
1
10-13, and
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