Re: ASET, How do you interpret this question?

Whenever I hear primary and secondary with a spanning-tree task I think of
the spanning-tree root primary and secondary commands. Only with those
commands do you really see that terminology used.

On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Ryan West <rwest_at_zyedge.com> wrote:

> G2,
>
> It's gauging if you understand how to use the primary and secondary root
> commands vs just apply priority 0 and priority 4096. I can see how it's
> confusing, so I would walk that one up to you local proctor for a
> clarification.
>
> -ryan
>
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> Subject: ASET, How do you interpret this question?
>
> How do you guys interpret this question?
>
>
> SPANNING TREE:
> -STP parameters for VLANs 1,10,20,30,40,100,200 and 300 should be
> dictated by SW1. SW2 should be the secondary root. SW2, SW3, and SW4
> should not be root bridge for any VLANs.
> -The primary and secondary priorities should be at their default values.
>
>
>
> When I see the second bullet saying "primary and secondary priorities
> should be at their default values", that tells me that I cannot modify
> SW1 and SW2. Not even with the "spanning-tree vlan X root primary" or
> "secondary" command. So my solution was to just change the priorities
> for SW3 and SW4 to be higher than SW1/SW2. SW1 was already the root
> bridge so SW2 was the secondary by default.
>
>
> However, the answer to this question did use the "spanning-tree vlan X
> root primary & secondary" command.
>
> Am I missing something or is this just poorly worded?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Gary
>
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