Re: STP Timer values on the secondary bridge

Hi Larry,

  Thank you very much and sure will request proctor for clarification,if
situation arrives.

Thanks

Regards
Anantha Subramanian Natarajan

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Larry Hadrava <larryh_at_ine.com> wrote:

> Anantha:
> This is indeed one of those times where your understanding of the
> technology
> and best practices is highly important. You know and understand why this
> would be implemented in a "real world" deployment. So this would be a good
> question for the proctor if you are unsure. I'd trust that advice as the
> authoritative word.
>
> The way that you phrase a question like this will dictate the answer that
> you get. If you asked in such a manner that shows a full understanding of
> the technology and tell the proctor how and why you would do this, then you
> are likely to get a usable answer.
>
> Thanks
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Anantha Subramanian Natarajan
> Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 9:08 PM
> To: Cisco certification
> Subject: 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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