STP Timer values on the secondary bridge

Hi All,

  I was going through spanning tree protocol and here by referencing the
below paragraph read

"You can only modify the timer values from the root bridge.Modifying the
values on other bridges has no effect.However,don't forget to update any
"backup" root bridges "

My question is ,if for example in the real lab they give a task to configure
SW1 has primary root for vlan x and SW2 has secondary root for Vlan x and
then in another task,if they ask to change the forward-delay timer value to
y seconds for Vlan x,do we have to configure this on both root primary and
secondary switch.I heard many times that we don't neeed to worry about
redundancy unless specifically asked in the lab.But just want to make
sure,if they ask the above task,can we just configure the timer value on the
root primary and not on the secondary.

Kindly clarify the same.Thanks for the help

Regards
Anantha Subramanian Natarajan

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Received on Fri Sep 04 2009 - 20:07:56 ART