Re: STP Timer values on the secondary bridge

Hi Mohammed,

  Thanks for the comment and can you please elaborate about the backward
compatibility .

Thank you

Regards
Anantha Subramanian Natarajan

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Mohamed El Henawy <m.henawy_at_link.net> wrote:

> for backward computability ...anyway I think they wouldn't ask to configure
> it if its Rapid
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> I think if this is Rapid SPT we need to modify it on all Switches....Right
>> or Wrong ??
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>> 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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