There is no way short of disabling spanning-tree. On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Mark Beynon <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com
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