Re: Spanning Tree Max-age

From: shiran guez (shiranp3@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Dec 21 2008 - 11:07:37 ARST


The job of the max age timer is to count the max time each BPDU can stay in
the local port STP db before you age out that BPDU.
the forwarding delay is a timer that is used to sleep between STP modes, so
2 different jobs.

Read the following:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk389/tk621/technologies_tech_note09186a0080094954.shtml

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 9:12 AM, John Edom <jedom123@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Regarding spanning max-age someone was saying, this time comes into play
> only when port was blocked be spanning tree and now coming to forwarding.
> when port come up from disabled to forward only forwarding-delay will be
> there no max-age. Please clarify is it right?
>
> Regards
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