patrickmoneyy
Lifetime Supporting Member
Hi All,
I've been playing with 2 stratix switches in my test bench and seeing how different configurations affect the behaviour when 2 managed switches are connected.
The default config is MSTP with the options for BPDU Gaurd and BPDU Filter on.
Question 1: Are those options applied globally to access ports, or are they only applied to the individual ports you turn PortFast on for?
Question 2: If I understand them correctly is there any reason to have both options enabled? It seems like they achieve very different goals, and if PortFast was enabled you would only want BPDU Gaurd.
Just beginning to dip my toes into the different features related to spanning tree and would appreciate some opinions
Edit: The behavior I don't like out of the box is that connecting the two switches puts all of my ports into blocking state for around 10 seconds. Enabling PortFast on access ports and trunking between the two switches seems to fix that.
I've been playing with 2 stratix switches in my test bench and seeing how different configurations affect the behaviour when 2 managed switches are connected.
The default config is MSTP with the options for BPDU Gaurd and BPDU Filter on.
Question 1: Are those options applied globally to access ports, or are they only applied to the individual ports you turn PortFast on for?
Question 2: If I understand them correctly is there any reason to have both options enabled? It seems like they achieve very different goals, and if PortFast was enabled you would only want BPDU Gaurd.
Just beginning to dip my toes into the different features related to spanning tree and would appreciate some opinions
Edit: The behavior I don't like out of the box is that connecting the two switches puts all of my ports into blocking state for around 10 seconds. Enabling PortFast on access ports and trunking between the two switches seems to fix that.