From: John (jgarrison1@austin.rr.com)
Date: Wed Jul 09 2008 - 14:32:41 ART
Exactly!!!! I've moved on
----- Original Message -----
From: "LJ" <lj@2u2.nu>
To: "John" <jgarrison1@austin.rr.com>
Cc: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: Can you make a root port a designated port?
> OK, what about this.. you make the trunk port asymmetrical.. dot1q tunnel
> :)
> than make it exit in the segment where it will be the designated port for
> it is
> the root port tunneled... ouch..
>
>
> On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 11:09:42 -0600
> "John" <jgarrison1@austin.rr.com> wrote:
> : Exactly!!! the task is to make the trunk port f0/14 a designated port.
> The problem is that f0/14 is a root port.
> : There are 2 other ports connected to the root f0/13 and f0/15. If I
> change the cost all I'm doing is possibly
> :making another port the root port and putting f0/14 into altn blocking
> state. Even if I make f0/13 or f0/15 the root
> :port(I would have to make them trunks which was not asked for anywhere in
> the lab). I can't make f0/14 a designated
> :port, because that makes a loop and STP won't allow that. The SG is wrong
> wrong wrong, and I was trying to find out
> :if there is some "exotic" way to accomplish the task.
> : ----- Original Message ----- From: "LJ" <lj@2u2.nu>
> : To: "John" <jgarrison1@austin.rr.com>
> : Cc: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> : Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 10:46 AM
> : Subject: Re: Can you make a root port a designated port?
> : : :>A designated port points the opposite direction than a root port.
> :> While a root port points towards the root a designated port points
> :> downstream away from the root.
> :>
> :> To make a port designated you have port cost and port priority.
> :>
> :> I can't fully follow you.. Can you paste the whole task here?
> :>
> :> On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 10:23:12 -0600
> :> "John" <jgarrison1@austin.rr.com> wrote:
> :> : I have a switch with 3 connections to another switch that is the
> root.
> :> One of
> :> : the connections is a dot1q trunk. I'm tasked with making it a
> :> designated
> :> : port. I have tried a number of configurations and I've come to
> realize
> :> that I
> :> : cant make it designated because that would mean that one of the other
> :> ports
> :> : has to become root. If I could then make make the port designated I
> :> have a
> :> : loop.
> :> : : Ports going to the root can only have two states root forwarding or
> :> altn
> :> : blocking right?
> :> : : Can anyone see a way to accomplish this? besides making my switch
> the
> :> root?
> :> : : :
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