Cisco CCIE Certification and CCNP Certification FAQs :
How do I ensure a switch never becomes the STP root?
The root bridge is always lower than the highest priority setting.
By using 65535, the highest number possible, your example ensures that the
switch will never become root bridge.
To set another switch to be root bridge, enter
set spantree root VLANThe bridge priority will be set to 8192 or 1 less than the current root priority, whichever is less.
show spantree provides info about the designated root priority.
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spanning-tree vlan <vlan #> priority <priority>
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How can you assign IPX network FFFFFFFE to an interface?