RE: Root Bridges in PVST..

Thanks Peter, I am still trying to get my head around this one. My understanding was regardless on the VLAN connectivity; all layer 2 traffic will traverse the RB.

Which sounds kinda of inefficient, because if you have a large network of say 50 switches & one RB. But, if you split between a few a few RBs based on the VLANs this does not sound that bad.

Thanks again.
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Regards,

Jit

-----Original Message-----
From: peter ehiwe [mailto:ccie.in.nigeria_at_gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, 25 June 2009 4:06 AM
To: Jitendra Anbu
Cc: CCIE R/S, Groupstudy
Subject: Re: Root Bridges in PVST..

Intra vlan traffic can go thru the root bridge depending on were
clients assigned to the vlan in question are located , if the clients
communicating span multiple switches that make up the spanning tree
topology then intra vlan traffic has to flow thru the root bridge for
the hosts to communicate the same goes for mst.

HTH

Regards,

Peter

On 6/24/09, Jitendra Anbu <Jitendra.Anbu_at_optus.com.au> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Can someone explain ., if switches are running PVST, would INTRA-VLAN
> communication need to go through the root bridge? How would this differ in
> MST?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jit
>
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