From: John (jgarrison1@austin.rr.com)
Date: Mon May 05 2008 - 12:29:05 ART
I get that part. It doesn't make sense to me to task someone to enable
bpdufilter on 1 interface and the solution has it enabled it on all the
interfaces. Just checking to see if I was missing something
----- Original Message -----
From: "Todd, Douglas M." <DTODD@PARTNERS.ORG>
To: "John" <jgarrison1@austin.rr.com>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 8:58 AM
Subject: RE: bpdufilter
> Well - global bpdufilter enables the feature for every interface. (the
> affect
> on trunks is null)
> Under the interface is just for that interface and does not affect any
> other
> interfaces.
>
> You can also enable it globally, and disable it per interface.
> OR
> Disable it globally and enable it per interface.
>
> Just keep in mind that if you enable it globally and you have a bridge
> device,
> you will disable the port. BPDUs will be seen on the interface. This can
> cause
> you some pain.
>
> Portfast does not have an affect on the bpdufilter, just reduces the
> spanning-tree states and make the port go to forwarding faster and no tcn.
> Thus
> the dhcp client will not have issues because of the port in a non
> forwarding
> state while the client is doing the dhcp discover/request.
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com on behalf of John
> Sent: Mon 5/5/2008 10:56 AM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: bpdufilter
>
>
>
> Is there any difference between enabling bpdufilter on the interface and
> enabling it for the whole switch? I ask because I have a solution that
> has
> the whole switch having bpdufilter enabled. although I was tasked with
> enabling it for one interface. This is in conjuction with portfast on
> that
> interface if that makes a difference.
>
>
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