From: Venkataramanaiah.R (vramanaiah@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Apr 09 2007 - 02:15:56 ART
Isnt this the other way around...? Port priority influences the other switch
downstream to select appropriate port. (It is carried in the BPDU)
and cost influences selection of upstream ports..
On 4/8/07, 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 <cdan2154@gmail.com> 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 <dtandou@yahoo.com> 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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