Reference Guide

838 | Service Provider Bridging
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Provider Backbone Bridging through IEEE 802.1ad eliminates the need for tunneling BPDUs with L2PT
and increases the reliability of provider bridge networks as the network core need only learn the MAC
addresses of core switches, as opposed to all MAC addresses received from attached customer devices.
Task Command Syntax Command Mode
Use the Provider Bridge Group address
as the destination MAC address in
BPDUs. The xstp keyword applies this
functionality to STP, RSTP, and MSTP;
this functionality is not available for
PVST+.
bpdu-destination-mac-address [stp | gvrp]
provider-bridge-group
CONFIGURATION