From: Paglia, John (USPC.PCT.Hopewell) (JPaglia@NA2.US.ML.com)
Date: Wed Sep 25 2002 - 21:29:21 GMT-3
The key is to say that it can "never" become the root. In this case, only
disabling spanning tree will work. As long as spanning tree is functional on
a vlan, no matter how high the priority, it has a chance of becoming the
root.
Either that or, as one wise individual stated, turn the switch off.
John
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Voss, David [SMTP:dvoss@heidrick.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 7:51 PM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Consensus
>
> I've been going through the threads on spanning tree and one thread that
> never had a consensus was how to ensure a switch would "never" become
> root.
> There is not a text I have found that addresses this. From what I can
> tell,
> one option is to turn off spanning tree completely, the other to set
> priority to 65535. Neither sounds appropriate to me.
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