Can the Switch Work with Non-Huawei Devices Running STP or RSTP?
The switch adopts the standard STP or RSTP algorithm. Whether the switch can work with the STP or RSTP devices of other vendors depends on the protocols running on those STP or RSTP devices:
If a non-Huawei device runs the standard STP or RSTP protocol, the switch can interwork with it.
If a non-Huawei device runs a non-standard STP or RSTP protocol, besides the Cisco Per VLAN Spanning Tree (PVST) protocol, the switch can transparently transmit the STP or RSTP packets from the device after the stp disable and bpdu enable commands are run on the interface.
If a non-Huawei device is a Cisco device that runs PVST, the Huawei switch running a version earlier than V200R005 cannot negotiate with the device, but can transparently transmit the packets from the non-Huawei device. Huawei switches running V200R005 and later versions support the VLAN-based Spanning Tree (VBST) protocol that can interwork with PVST.