03-31-2025 06:19 AM
For STP to work properly, each switch needs a BID which it gets by combining a 2-byte Priority Field and a 6-byte MAC Address.
Consider
A switch can have 24 ethernet ports, each with a Network Interface Card (NIC) having a unique MAC address. Which of these MAC addresses then is used? None. To ensure a unique BID, switches use a burned-in MAC address from the switch's base system (backplane). It is this base system MAC when combined with the Priority Field that makes the BID.
So, even if a switch has multiple interfaces, it does not use an individual port's MAC address for the BID.
@Ramblin Tech M02@rt37
03-31-2025 07:05 AM
Sorry what is your Q? Can you elaborate
MHM
03-31-2025 07:25 AM
MAC address of the switch.
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03-31-2025 08:07 AM - edited 03-31-2025 08:10 AM
The 64-bit Bridge ID is comprised from the concatenation of the 4-bit priority field + 12-bit MSTI/CIST ID + 48-bit Bridge Address. Your question centers on the origin of the Bridge Address
From 802.1Q-2022 8.13.8 Unique identification of a Bridge:
"A unique EUI-48 Universally Administered MAC address, termed the Bridge Address, shall be assigned to
each Bridge. The Bridge Address may be the individual MAC address of a Bridge Port; in which case, use of
the address of the lowest numbered Bridge Port (Port 1) is recommended.
NOTE—RSTP (Clause 13) and MSTP (Clause 13) require that a single unique identifier be associated with each Bridge.
That identifier is derived from the Bridge Address as specified in 14.2.5."
The Bridge Address may be an address of a bridge port, but is not required to be; it need only be a globally unique address. If it does use the MAC address of a bridge port, the standard recommends using the lowest numbered address.
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