Re: STP root bridge question?

Can you indirectly change the priority? If so, you could use "spanning-tree
vlan 1-4094 root primary" on the switch that IS the root and then utilize
root guard. That would be one way.

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Ivan Hrvatska <ivanzghr_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> if you have topology like this:
>
> sw1-----sw2
> | \ / |
> | \ / |
> | / \ |
> sw3------sw4
>
> all trunks between switches are etherchannel. Let say you don't want
> that SW2 becomes root for any VLAN. How can you accomplish that
> without changing priority on any of switches? STP used is RPVST.
>
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