From: Tandou Mohamed (dtandou@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Apr 08 2007 - 21:42:57 ART
Thanks everyone for your input. Now i see i was a little confuse when to use one over the other.
Digital Yemeni <digital.yemeni@gmail.com> wrote: Put it this way,
port-priority is used to affect the local switch to "prefer" a port over
another AND is locally significant while;
Cost is used to affect the upstream switch to prefer our port over another
port of another switch since cost is accumulative throughout the STP domain!
Thanks to Brian MacGhan for making this VERY CLEAR ;-)
On 4/8/07, Dan C wrote:
>
> Hi Mohamed,
>
> STP port-priority you need to use it on the root bridge and cost on the
> non
> root bridge. To verify your settings you need to have a look the spanning
> tree on the opposite switch.
>
> Cheers, Dan
>
> On 4/8/07, Tandou Mohamed
wrote:
> >
> > Hello GS,
> > can someone explain to me when to use spanning-tree port-priority over
> > spanning-tree cost or vice versa? i read the cisco DoC looks like both
> have
> > same meaning may be i am wrong.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Mohamed
> >
> >
> >
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