Thanks all for the detailed information.

From: Joe Martini [mailto:joem...@cisco.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2016 4:11 PM
To: Ahmed Elnagar <ahmed_elna...@hotmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Welsh <stephen.we...@unifiedfx.com>; cisco-voip@puck.nether.net; 
Ryan Huff <ryanh...@outlook.com>; Matthew Loraditch 
<mloradi...@heliontechnologies.com>; Corson, Teressa 
<teressa.cor...@doit.nh.gov>; Dave Goodwin <dave.good...@december.net>
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] IP Phone Ports

Cisco IP phones are designed to forward BPDUs between the network and PC port 
to prevent loops and let spanning tree block ports when a switch receives a 
BPDU it sent out.  So if a user connects both ports to the same switch one port 
will go into blocking state to prevent a loop.  If BPDU guard is used like 
others said the port goes into err-disable, again preventing a loop.

The only exception I know of where a loop is created was from a bug that was 
quickly fixed (CSCut26167).

Joe

On Nov 10, 2016, at 8:56 AM, Ryan Huff 
<ryanh...@outlook.com<mailto:ryanh...@outlook.com>> wrote:

Steven ... correct, by plugging in the PC Port to the switch as well, you would 
be sending BPDUs back into the switch.

So as long as BPDU guard is enabled on the switch ports, then doing this would 
err-disable both switch ports (the one the PC Port and Network Port is plugged 
into). Pretty easy at that point to tell who the culprit is remotely, and in 
person.

= Ryan =


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From: cisco-voip 
<cisco-voip-boun...@puck.nether.net<mailto:cisco-voip-boun...@puck.nether.net>> 
on behalf of Stephen Welsh 
<stephen.we...@unifiedfx.com<mailto:stephen.we...@unifiedfx.com>>
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2016 8:43 AM
To: Ahmed Elnagar
Cc: cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net>
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] IP Phone Ports

I thought that this would be prevented by default because of spanning 
tree/BPDU, but it’s common practice to disable spanning tree for access ports 
(i.e. using portfast) so that may allow the loop to occur, so maybe just 
disable port-fast?

Kind Regards

Stephen Welsh
CTO

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On 10 Nov 2016, at 13:35, Ahmed Elnagar 
<ahmed_elna...@hotmail.com<mailto:ahmed_elna...@hotmail.com>> wrote:

That is not nice at all ☹

Did you figure out a way to prevent it from switch side?

From: Matthew Loraditch [mailto:mloradi...@heliontechnologies.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2016 3:34 PM
To: Ahmed Elnagar 
<ahmed_elna...@hotmail.com<mailto:ahmed_elna...@hotmail.com>>; 
'cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net>' 
<cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net>>
Subject: RE: IP Phone Ports

Yes it will create a loop. Not a fun time trying to track these things down. 
I’ve had some non-Cisco IP phones completely down a LAN.

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From: cisco-voip [mailto:cisco-voip-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Ahmed 
Elnagar
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2016 8:28 AM
To: 'cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net>' 
<cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net>>
Subject: [cisco-voip] IP Phone Ports

Dear all;

I want to know what will happen if a user connect “by mistake” both the PC port 
and Switch port to the network switch? Will this create a loop? Anyone tried it 
before?


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