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Setting bridge priority on switch

Description: This exercise demonstrates the command required to configure switch priority of a VLAN.

Instructions:

1. Enter into configuration mode on SW1

2. Issue the command "bridge-priority <priority-value> to configure the switch priority of a VLAN.

user@SW1>show spanning-tree interface
user@SW1>configure
[edit]
user@SW1#edit protocols
[edit protocols]
user@SW1#set stp bridge-priority 12288
[edit protocols]
user@SW1#exit
[edit]
user@SW1#exit

Note:The switch priority can be configured thus making it more likely to be chosen as the root switch. Priority range is 0 to 61440 in increments of 4096, default is 32768.