Hi Antonio,

In a real world, 0 would be the best to ensure it is root. But the task just
says make it root and tells you the number of bridges to hint (not very
subtly) at the macro + diameter command. I think this would fall in the
category of "just enough to get the task done." I also think about
verification, how would your solution be verified? If it is done with a
"show spanning-tree" or sho run" it would not matter what the priority is as
long as the switch was root and you had the macro set the timers. That being
said, I don't think setting it to 0 should count against you. But I'm not
the grader :-)

Bryan Bartik
CCIE #23707, CCNP
Sr. Support Engineer - IPexpert, Inc.
URL: http://www.IPexpert.com

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 5:02 AM, Antonio Soares <[email protected]> wrote:

> When try to define the root bridge, i like to set the priority to zero. But
> in this task we need the "spanning-tree vlan x root
> primary diameter" macro command to define the STP timers automatically. So
> my preferred solution would be:
>
> Cat1(config)#spanning-tree vlan 541 root primary diameter 5
> % This switch is already the root of VLAN541 spanning tree
>  VLAN 541 bridge priority set to 8192
>  VLAN 541 bridge max aging time set to 16
>  VLAN 541 bridge hello time unchanged at 2
>  VLAN 541 bridge forward delay set to 12
> Cat1(config)#
> Cat1(config)#
> Cat1(config)#do sh runn | inc spanning-tree vlan 541
> spanning-tree vlan 541 forward-time 12
> spanning-tree vlan 541 max-age 16
> spanning-tree vlan 541 priority 8192
> Cat1(config)#
> Cat1(config)#
> Cat1(config)#spanning-tree vlan 541 priority 0
> Cat1(config)#
> Cat1(config)#do sh runn | inc spanning-tree vlan 541
> spanning-tree vlan 541 forward-time 12
> spanning-tree vlan 541 max-age 16
> spanning-tree vlan 541 priority 0
> Cat1(config)#
>
> Any comments ?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Antonio Soares, CCIE #18473 (R&S)
> [email protected]
>
>


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