
Cisco Systems, Inc.
All contents are Copyright © 1992–2002 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Important Notices and Privacy Statement.
Page 22 of 42
All three of these enhancements to PVST+ are supported in both CatOS and Cisco IOS Software; the configuration
commands are shown here.
Root and BPDU Guard Configuration
The port-based BPDU Guard feature monitors to see if a BPDU is received on an unauthorized port. If a BPDU is
received on an access port, spanning tree shuts down these configured interfaces, rather than putting them into the
spanning-tree blocking state. Reception of a BPDU by a PortFast-configured interface signals an invalid
configuration, such as the connection of an unauthorized device. The BPDU guard feature provides a secure response
to invalid configurations since the interface is only re-enable manually by the administrator or automatically via the
error-disable feature. The spanning-tree root guard feature forces an interface to become a designated port, and if
any device accessible through the interface tries to become the root bridge, the root guard feature puts the interface
into the root-inconsistent (blocked) state.
Cisco IOS Software supports BPDU Guard and Root Guard feature on switchports only. The configuration dialog
below shows highlights configuration differences.
EtherChannel
EtherChannels in CatOS and Cisco IOS Software bundle individual Ethernet links into a single logical link that
provides bandwidth aggregation and link resilience in a network. Cisco Catalyst 6500 Ethernet interfaces support
up to eight interfaces per EtherChannel with all interfaces at the same speed: 10, 100, 1000, or 10,000 Mbps.
EtherChannel groups can include ports on any combination of line cards.
EtherChannel Operation
Configuring EtherChannels in the Cisco IOS Software is a two-step process: first you assign the ports to a
channel-group and then you create and configure the virtual interface port-channel. The virtual interface
port-channel behaves like a physical interface. As in CatOS, all configurations on the port channel interfaces are
propagated to the physical interfaces of the port channel. For example, shutting the port channel interface will shut
all physical ports on that port channel. To change parameters of all ports in an EtherChannel, the configuration
CatOS Cisco IOS Software
set spantree uplinkfast enable
set spantree backbonefast enable
set spantree portfast 3/1 enable
IOS(config)# spanning-tree uplinkfast
IOS(config)# spanning-tree backbonefast
IOS(config)# int range fa3/1
IOS(config-if)# switchport
IOS(config-if)# spanning-tree portfast
CatOS Cisco IOS Software
set spantree bpdu-guard 3/1 enable
set spanning-tree guard root 1/1
show spantree summary
IOS(config)# int range fast3/1
IOS(config-if)# switchport
IOS(config-if)# spanning-tree portfast bpduguard
IOS(config-if)# spanning-tree guard root
IOS# show spanning-tree summary
Comentarios a estos manuales