RE: FW: Spanning tree Protocols Questions [7:36565]

2002-02-27 Thread Good Jim
Hi, Hope this helps, Q1: Your statement is correct. A port must still listen to BPDUs in order to detect topology changes. Q2: According to Cisco books, blocked, listening, learning, and forwarding are valid STP stages. I haven't seen a book not list blocking. If you have one handy, let me

FW: Spanning tree Protocols Questions [7:36565]

2002-02-26 Thread Pierre-Alex Guanel
Question (1) Is the first part of this statement correct? I have looked at the 801d paper for an answer but I am still uncertain. In blocking mode, an interface will receive and send BPDUs but not send and receive data traffic. Question (2) Are blocked port considered part of the