From: Ahmed Mamoor Amimi (mamoor@ieee.org)
Date: Mon Oct 21 2002 - 08:59:09 GMT-3
Comments in-line.
-Mamoor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Khalid Siddiq" <khalid@sys.net.pk>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 1:50 PM
Subject: Two question
> Dear Group,
>
> 1. If we were asked to set the switch to have a greater chance to be a
> root switch.
> Is it ok to set the bridge priority to 0 ?
> Most of the cisco documentations use 1 as the lowest bridge priority.
> But in the actual priority 0 works fine.
The only way to make the switch root is setting the priorty ZERO. Can you
please tell us where you have read in cisco docs where priority 1 makes the
root.
> 2. In cisco doc, the higher IRDP preference value, the more preferable
> the router will be. But in the actual the lower IRDP preference value
> will make the router more preferable.
There is nothing wrong with this. Actually lower value means preferred when
it is 2s complement.
-Mamoor
> In both cases, in the context of lab exam, should we follow cisco doc ?
> or should we follow the actual ?
>
> Thanks.
> khalid
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