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instance-id  ——  Instance ID, ranging from 1 to 8. 

pri  ——  Port Priority, which must be multiple of 16 ranging from 0 to 240. By 

default, it is 128. Port Priority is an important criterion on determining if the port 

will be chosen as the root port by the device connected to this port. 

cost  ——  Path Cost, ranging from 0 to 200000. The lower value has the higher 

priority. Its default value is 0 meaning “auto”. 

Interface Configuration Mode (interface gigabitEthernet / interface range 

gigabitEthernet) 

Configure the priority of port 1 in MST Instance 1 as 64, and path cost as 2000: 

TL-SG3424(config)# interface gigabitEthernet 1/0/1 

TL-SG3424(config-if)# spanning-tree mst instance 1 port-priority 64 cost 

2000 

The spanning-tree priority command is used to configure the bridge priority. To 

return to the default value of bridge priority, please use no spanning-tree 

priority command. 

spanning-tree priority pri 

no spanning-tree priority   

pri  ——  Bridge priority, ranging from 0 to 61440. It is 32768 by default. 

Global Configuration Mode 

Configure the bridge priority as 4096: 

TL-SG3424(config)# spanning-tree priority 4096