Re: Permanent Spanning-tree Root Switch Question

From: Cielieska Nathan (ncielieska@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Dec 13 2007 - 10:49:43 ART

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Felix,

If you place the root guard feature on all your SW1 interfaces.. i'm
pretty sure you will loose points.

RootGuard is to be put on ports leading to the root on downstream
switches.

Regards,
Nate
On Dec 13, 2007, at 3:56 AM, Felix Nkansah wrote:

> HI,
> Thanks to you all for your replies.
>
> I didnt have the 'root guard' feature in mind as a possible
> approach to
> solving this task. It seems brilliant to me tho.
>
> So in short, I guess I would solve this task by
>
> 1. Setting the SW1 spanning-tree switch priority to a value less
> than all
> other switches (preferrably 0)
>
> and to be on the safer side,
>
> 2. Enable spanning-tree root guard on all SW1 interfaces to prevent
> any
> other switch (present and in the future) from becoming switch
>
> Regards,
>
> Felix
>
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