Hi Amit,

In the document you indicate, it's placed on Switch C on the interface
facing Switch D - Switch C is not the root bridge though.

Place rootguard on any interface you don't want to receive superior BPDUs
from but still expect to be involved in the STP topology (otherwise you
could take other protective measures such as bpdufiltering however if that
peer device also has another connection into your switching domain and
could introduce a bridging loop).

Simply described, rootguard prevents a new device (typically outside of
your administrative control) from influencing the placement of the
rootbridge in the network which could provide a sub-optimal topology in
your network by moving the port with the new device claiming it should be
the root bridge into a root inconsistent state until it stops sending BPDUs
that are superior to the current root, at which state it becomes a regular
STP interacting port.

Cheers,
Adam


On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Amit Jp <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> I need to knwo where exactly should the root guard should be configured. I
> feel it should always be on Root Switch .
>
> And if not kindly explain with a diagram .
> I have this Link(
>
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk389/tk621/technologies_tech_note09186a00800ae96b.shtml
> )
> but i am still confused abt it. What should go wrong if i have this
> commmand on Root Swtich.
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