RE: bpduguard

From: Andrew Larkins (andrew.larkins@BTGroup.co.za)
Date: Wed Jan 03 2007 - 09:53:42 ART


Hi,

There are 2 ways of doing this as you mentioned - both achieve the same
result. What I would rather do here is stay with the specific's being
asked in the question. If you enter the global command for bpduguard,
then all other portfast ports will disable - not required. The question
here relates only for the ports mentioned, so the longer way is the way
I would do it.

Spanning-tree bpduguard enable on an interface is only active once
portfast is configured as I understand it.

In real life I would use the global command for bpduguard default and
then portfast.

Semantics really:)

Regards

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
mike chambo
Sent: 03 January 2007 14:41 PM
To: Cisco certification
Subject: bpduguard

Question:
  Enable Portfast on interfaces g1/0/12 thru g1/0/16.
  Make sure that the switch will shut down any of these interfaces if it
receives a BPDU on one of them.
   
  Solution provided:
   
  int ran g1/0/12 - 16
  spanning-tree portfast
  spanning-tree bpduguard enable
   
  this seems logical but my reading or my confusion seems to lead me to
believe that:
   
   if portfast is enabled on the interface, then you don't need to
activate bpduguard on the same interface; enter spanning-tree portfast
bpduguard default (a global command) instead.
   
  That is:
  globally enter:
  spanning-tree portfast bpduguard default
   
  and at the Interface level:
   
  Interface range g1/0/12 - 16
  spanning-tree portfast
   
  or simply enter:
   
  int ran g1/0/12 - 16
  spanning-tree bpduguard enable
   
  Michael Chambo
   

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