MVRP with Per-VLAN STP and Per-VLAN RSTP
Beginning with FastIron release 08.0.95, MVRP is enhanced to support Per-VLAN Spanning Tree (PVST). By default, all the dynamic VLANs created by MVRP run spanning tree instances.
PVST is enabled by default on MVRP untagged VLANs. You can use the mvrp spanning-tree command to choose the type of
spanning tree to be added to the dynamic VLANs.
MVRP messages are propagated only to the ports in the active topology which comprise a set of forwarding ports in the MVRP untagged VLAN. MVRP does not support multiple dynamic VLANs to converge with different active spanning-tree topologies. The new VLANs that are learned dynamically will have the same Layer 2 data path. If you want a different path to be established for a particular PVST instance, you must manually configure the VLANs and add ports and configure the appropriate spanning tree parameters.
If you do not want spanning tree instances
enabled by default on dynamic VLANs, you must remove the MVRP configuration on
all
interfaces, configure the no
mvrp spanning-tree command, and then reconfigure MVRP on those interfaces.
MVRP Untagged VLAN
The MVRP untagged VLAN is the VLAN in which all MVRP-enabled ports are present. The VLAN is automatically determined by the system, as it is the untagged VLAN ID of the first port on which MVRP is enabled. All other MVRP ports added afterward must follow the same untagged VLAN membership. Consequently, the untagged VLAN membership of MVRP-enabled ports cannot be changed during MVRP operation. Therefore, the following operations issue an error message:
- Changing the untagged VLAN ID on an MVRP-enabled untagged port
- Removing an MVRP untagged VLAN
- Enabling MVRP on a port with untagged membership of a different VLAN
- Enabling MVRP on a port that is strictly tagged