Hello @Giuseppe Larosa Thanks for your comment which I think is a very rich summary about Edge Ports in RSTP. And YES, it is definitely not optional nor luxury anymore when using RSTP. If this key feature was not used on user ports, it will be defini...

Hello @paul driverFrom a network design perspective, I definitely agree with you that access ports should not be connected to other switches. This is a bad practice. However, from the operational point of view, access ports can connect to other switc...

As you have guessed, the first point is wrong. This behavior has nothing to do with multicast. First of all, you need to know that the assumption that STP/RSTP know that access ports do not connect to switches and hence no need to send BPDUs out of t...