[f-nsp] mstp disable vs no spanning-tree

[Steven Raymond]

Thank you for the response.

On Feb 6, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> 
> no spanning-tree at the vlan level completely stops all varieties of
> multi-vlan STP for that VLAN.

Do you mean Cisco PVST?  Or MSTP?

> stp-protect causes inbound bpdus to be dropped and counted, and stops stp
> negotiation from happening on the port, but as fas I remember, the port
> will still be part of the spanning tree topology.

What is the the purpose for remaining part of the topology while not exchanging BPDUs?  Does that offer some advantage over "no spanning-tree"?


Thanks!