Actually, there are two kinds of BPDU. Configuration and Topology Change Notification.
Anyway, to answer the original question... BPDUs are multicast. The source address is
the MAC address of the port its being sent out on and the destination address is
01-80-C2-00-00-00.
Karen
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On 7/12/2000 at 7:41 PM Roman wrote:
:Bridge Protocol Data Unit - datagram exchanged between switches for Spanning
:Tree Protocol - to provide a loop-free network.
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:Roman
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:At 06:20 PM 7/12/00 -0500, you wrote:
:>I got this questions and choices were like unicast to wellknown addresses,
:>multicast or broadcast. Does anybody know what it's exactly?
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:>Thanks!
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