<div>No, it is not needed. The interface commands just provide a more granular control for where you send and recieve bpdu's, if stp were enabled on that particular vlan. This is on by default, but has no effect since it is off for the vlan.
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Gabriel Barazer</b> <<a href="mailto:gabriel@oxeva.fr">gabriel@oxeva.fr</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hello,<br><br>I am a bit confused about where STP is enabled or not on my Foundry<br>BigIron : by default STP is disabled on this switch, but the way it is
<br>displayed is very strange :<br><br>I have 7 VLANs, with no STP options (so STP is disabled as this is the<br>default)<br><br>- show vlan confirm this by displaying "Spanning tree Off" on all these<br>vlans<br>
<br>- show span also confirm this : "Spanning-tree is not configured on<br>port-vlan 1" and so on for other vlans<br><br>BUT show interface says "STP configured to ON" on all my interfaces. Why<br>are the interfaces STP enabled, whereas vlans have STP _disabled_ ?
<br><br>I can manually disable STP on each interface by setting "no span" but<br>why is this necessary on a layer 3 switch like the BigIron where it is<br>mentionned in the manual that STP is NOT enabled by default ?
<br><br>Any help appreciated,<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Gabriel<br>_______________________________________________<br>foundry-nsp mailing list<br><a href="mailto:foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net">foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net</a><br>
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