Configuring the Bridge Mode

This article describes the configuration of bridge mode for the bridges.

CLI Configurations

At Switch1 and Switch5

• Set the bridge-mode as customer and spanning tree mode as mst.
  your product#configure terminal
  your product(config)# shutdown spanning-tree
  your product(config)# set gvrp disable
  your product(config)# set gmrp disable
  your product(config)# shutdown garp
  your product(config)# bridge-mode customer
  your product(config)# no shutdown garp
  your product(config)# set gvrp enable
  your product(config)# spanning-tree mode mst

At Switch2 and Switch6

• Set the bridge-mode as provider-edge and spanning tree mode as mst.
  your product(config)# shutdown spanning-tree
  your product(config)# set gvrp disable
  your product(config)# set gmrp disable
  your product(config)# shutdown garp
  your product(config)# bridge-mode provider-edge
  your product(config)# no shutdown garp
  your product(config)# set gvrp enable
  your product(config)# spanning-tree mode mst

At Switch3, Switch4, Switch7 and Switch8

• Set the bridge-mode as provider-core and spanning tree mode as mst.
  your product(config)# shutdown spanning-tree
  your product(config)# set gvrp disable
  your product(config)# set gmrp disable
  your product(config)# shutdown garp
  your product(config)# bridge-mode provider-core
  your product(config)# no shutdown garp
  your product(config)# set gvrp enable
  your product(config)# spanning-tree mode mst

SNMP Configurations

At Switch1 and Switch5

• Set the bridge-mode as customerBridge. [Index: ContextID = 0]
  % snmp0 set {{fsMIMstSystemControl.0 shutdown }}
  % snmp0 set {{fsDot1qGvrpStatus.0 disabled }}
  % snmp0 set {{fsDot1dGmrpStatus.0 disabled }}
  % snmp0 set {{fsMIDot1qFutureGarpShutdownStatus.0 true }}
  % snmp0 set {{fsMIEcfmSystemControl.0 shutdown }}
  % snmp0 set {{fsMIVlanBridgeMode.0 customerBridge }}
  % snmp0 set {{fsMIDot1qFutureGarpShutdownStatus.0 false }}
  % snmp0 set {{fsDot1qGvrpStatus.0 enabled }}
  % snmp0 set {{fsDot1dGmrpStatus.0 enabled }}
  % snmp0 set {{fsMIMstSystemControl.0 start }}
  % snmp0 set {{fsMIMstModuleStatus.0 enabled }}
  % snmp0 set {{fsMIDot1qFutureVlanShutdownStatus.0 false }}

At Switch2 and Switch6

• Set the bridge-mode as providerEdgeBridge. [Index: ContextID = 0]
  % snmp0 set {{fsMIMstSystemControl.0 shutdown }}
  % snmp0 set {{fsDot1qGvrpStatus.0 disabled }}
  % snmp0 set {{fsMIDot1qFutureGarpShutdownStatus.0 true }}
  % snmp0 set {{fsMIEcfmSystemControl.0 shutdown }}
  % snmp0 set {{fsMIVlanBridgeMode.0 providerEdgeBridge }}
  % snmp0 set {{fsMIDot1qFutureGarpShutdownStatus.0 false }}
  % snmp0 set {{fsDot1qGvrpStatus.0 enabled }}
  % snmp0 set {{fsMIMstSystemControl.0 start }}
  % snmp0 set {{fsMIMstModuleStatus.0 enabled }}
  % snmp0 set {{fsMIDot1qFutureVlanShutdownStatus.0 false }}

At Switch3, Switch4, Switch7 and Switch8

• Set the bridge-mode as providerCoreBridge. [Index: ContextID = 0]
  % snmp0 set {{fsMIMstSystemControl.0 shutdown }}
  % snmp0 set {{fsDot1qGvrpStatus.0 disabled }}
  % snmp0 set {{fsMIDot1qFutureGarpShutdownStatus.0 true }}
  % snmp0 set {{fsMIEcfmSystemControl.0 shutdown }}
  % snmp0 set {{fsMIVlanBridgeMode.0 providerCoreBridge }}
  % snmp0 set {{fsMIDot1qFutureGarpShutdownStatus.0 false }}
  % snmp0 set {{fsDot1qGvrpStatus.0 enabled }}
  % snmp0 set {{fsMIMstSystemControl.0 start }}
  % snmp0 set {{fsMIMstModuleStatus.0 enabled }}
  % snmp0 set {{fsMIDot1qFutureVlanShutdownStatus.0 false }}