Hi, I have 2 S3048-ON and 2 S5232F-ON. If design a STP load-out. Now i`f been ask to connect the 2 switches with VLT to an other network environment. The only requirement I`f got is to disable Spanning-Tree to form a L2 neighbor.
But it seen not to work. The commando is there. But does not work:
(conf-if-eth1/1/53)# spanning-tree disable % Error: Interface ethernet1/1/53 is not in Layer-2 mode
The config of that port is: interface ethernet1/1/53 description OtherNetwork shutdown channel-group 53 mode active no switchport flowcontrol receive off
Spanning-Tree works only on layer2 interfaces. If your interface is configured with "no switchport", Spanning-Tree is disabled automatically. "no switchport" is invoked automatically, as soon as you add an interface to a port-channel. The default configuration of a port-channel is a layer2 interface, thus it has a spanning tree instance.
Based on your description I think, that you have to disable spanning tree on your port-channel 53 interface (on the interface "spanning-tree disable").
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Posted April 16th, 2020 09:00
Hi,
Is port 53 the one you are going to use vlt on? You may want to remove all configuration from the port. Then reconfigure it how you want.