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Chapter 6
Configuring the System
Enabling STP UplinkFast
When you enable UplinkFast, it is enabled for the entire switch and cannot be enabled for individual
VLANs.
Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to configure UplinkFast:
Command
Step 1
configure terminal
Step 2
spanning-tree uplinkfast
max-update-rate pkts-per-second
Step 3
exit
Step 4
show spanning-tree
When UplinkFast is enabled, the bridge priority of all VLANs is set to 49152, and the path cost of all
ports and VLAN trunks is increased by 3000. This change reduces the chance that the switch will become
the root switch. When UplinkFast is disabled, the bridge priorities of all VLANs and path costs of all
ports are set to default values.
Configuring Cross-Stack UplinkFast
Cross-stack UplinkFast (CSUF) provides a fast spanning-tree transition (fast convergence in less than 2
seconds under normal network conditions) across a stack of switches that use the GigaStack GBICs
connected in a shared cascaded configuration (multidrop backbone). During the fast transition, an
alternate redundant link on the stack of switches is placed into the forwarding state without causing
temporary spanning-tree loops or loss of connectivity to the backbone. With this feature, you can have
a redundant and resilient network in some configurations.
CSUF might not provide a fast transition all the time; in these cases, the normal STP transition occurs,
which completes in 30 to 40 seconds. For more information, see the
Convergence" section on page
How CSUF Works
CSUF ensures that one link in the stack is elected as the path to the root. As shown in
Switches A, B, and C are cascaded through the Gigastack GBIC to form a multidrop backbone, which
communicates control and data traffic across the switches at the access layer. The switches in the stack
use their stack ports to communicate with each other and to connect to the stack backbone; stack ports
are always in the STP forwarding state. The stack root port on Switch A provides the path to the root of
the spanning tree; the alternate stack root ports on Switches B and C can provide an alternate path to the
spanning-tree root if the current stack root switch fails or its link to the spanning-tree root fails.
Link A, the root link, is in the STP forwarding state; Links B and C are alternate redundant links that are
in the STP blocking state. If Switch A fails, if its stack root port fails, or if Link A fails, CSUF selects
either the Switch B or Switch C alternate stack root port and puts it into the forwarding state in less than
1 second.
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Purpose
Enter global configuration mode.
Enable UplinkFast on the switch.
The range is from 0 to 1000 packets per second. The default is 150.
If you set the rate to 0, station-learning frames are not generated, so the STP
topology converges more slowly after a loss of connectivity.
Return to privileged EXEC mode.
Verify your entries.
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