From: Eric Phillips (eric@phillips.tc)
Date: Thu Jan 24 2008 - 00:13:58 ARST
Syed,
Remember that the lowest priority wins the STP root bridge election. Can
you show us a "show spanning-tree" output? Perhaps you already have another
switch with a priority of 4096?
-Eric
On 1/23/08, Syed Ali <testcricket@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello All,
> I am trying to make this switch a root. I have given it the
> highest priority, still cannot make it the roo and get the following error
> msg. Can you please help?
>
> thanks
> Ali
>
> SW1(config)#spanning-tree vlan 1 root pri
> % Failed to make the bridge root for vlan 1
> % It may be possible to make the bridge root by setting the priority
> % for some (or all) of these instances to zero.
> SW1(config)#
>
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