Hub connected to an access port

Hi All,

  I am trying to find an soultion on the below requirement.Any help is
really appreciated.

  The requirement is,an access port should be put in error disabled state if
an switch or hub is connected to that port.I am assuming that having
portfast enabled with bpdu guard feature on it would put the access port on
error disable state if an switch is connected.One problem which I have in
this solution is,if the connected switch has disabled BPDU on that port,how
this access port would knaow about it and put the port in error disable
state.

Also,if the hub is connected,how the access port knows about it, as I am
assuming, Spanning tree protocol only runs on bridges and switches which are
8012.1D compliant and so not in hub.I am thinking,may be I am wrong in this
assumption.Kindly help me to understand the same.

Any other method to acheive the same.

Thanks for the assistance

Regards
Anantha Subramanian Natarajan

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Received on Sun Jun 07 2009 - 23:37:28 ART