Cisco IOS in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

Name

bridge priority — global

Synopsis

bridge bridge-group priority value
no bridge bridge-group priority value

Configures

The priority of an individual bridge

Default

32768 for bridges using the IEEE protocol; 128 for bridges using the Digital spanning-tree protocol

Description

This command assigns a priority to an individual bridge within the given bridge-group. value specifies the interface’s priority; value must be between 0 and 65535. A higher priority increases the chance that an interface will be selected as the root bridge. To set an interface to a specific priority, use the bridge-group priority command.