On Apr 26, 2012, at 1:09 PM, Steven Raymond wrote: > The MLX defaults to "route-only" which apparently means every port acts like Cisco's equivalent to "no switchport" or layer-3 only mode. So it would receive the MLX's BPDUs and silently discard them. s/receive the MLX's/receive the Cisco's/ Meh my crappy proofreading.