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RSTP configuration

RSTP configuration

In this video, we're going to take a look at how to configure Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol, or specifically Cisco's variant of that, which is RapidPVST+, as we discussed in our last video. Let's see what our current Spanning Tree mode is right now. Let's do a show spanning-tree summary command, and it says that currently we're in MST mode. Remember we set that up a couple of videos back? Let's change that on all of our switches. let's go into global configuration mode and we'll say spanning-tree mode and context-sensitive help shows that we've got an option of rapid PVST and Notice I say it's PVST plus but it just says PVST there the plus means that we're Interconnecting our switches over a dot1q trunk, which is typically what we're doing So I call it RapidPVST+, but really that's just a specific type of RapidPVST. Let's set this up on all of our switches. Notice I'm getting some error messages on screen because we have mismatched modes right now. Let's say spanning-tree mode…

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