Any one got any idea how to stop a switch ever becoming root. Obviously you can demote it's priority, and raise everyone else's, but this wouldn't stop it if all switches were removed and the one remaining switch had the same priority. Then we would be down to the chance of mac addresses.
Is there another way? Cant really turn of spanning-tree, and any filtering would just allow this switch to become root even though others may not know it. I thought about EEM, but the best I coup cone up with was shutting down links if no better bpdu was received. They wouldn't recover though so not suitable. I thought about trying loop guard on all switch links. This would take the switch link down if it stopes receiving the bpdu's, but wouldn't stop my switch becoming the root if it had equal priority. Wasn't quite sure what would happen if the switch became root.. It's peers would stop sending bpdu's to it so maybe the links would err-disable.. Any ideas? Sent from my iPhone _______________________________________________ For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com Are you a CCNP or CCIE and looking for a job? Check out www.PlatinumPlacement.com
