[c-nsp] Switch port with BPDU guard

Vincent De Keyzer vincent at dekeyzer.net
Tue Jan 31 06:38:40 EST 2006


> When the switch is not running spanning-tree on a VLAN, it becomes
> transparent to spanning-tree BPDUs -- any BPDUs received will be
> forwarded just like any other packet would be.  (And bpdufilter will
> have no effect on that -- bpdufilter only prevents the transmission of
> bpdus originated by the switch.)
> 
> What is probably happening here is that the switch is receiving a BPDU
> on another port, and then forwarding it out Fa0/18.
> 
> One think you could do is enable spanning-tree on the VLAN, then
> configure portfast and bpdufilter on every port in that VLAN.

Your analysis is correct, and your suggestion works.

Thanks a lot!

Vincent




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