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Hi All,Consider the following scenario: An IGP is running between D-SW1 and D-SW2. They both advertise the Routes 10.0.0.0/24 and 20.0.0.0/24 to each other. However, since these are also their CONNECTED ROUTES, therefore, because of...
Hi All,I have read in ine MST tutorial that a switch does not exchange M-Records out the Boundary Port, i.e, a pot connected to either another MST Region or an STP/RSTP switch.My question is that how does a switch knows that it's certain port is Boun...
I have a very basic question regarding PVST. Consider the following topology:My quiestion is that will SW2 respect/consider/will take any action/reply to the BPDUs it recieves from SW1 for VLAN1,2 and 3 as these are not activated on it? Same is for o...
Hi All,I have read in CCNP Switch book that we can use the MLS Switch to be used as a DHCP Server. However, we can define only one DHCP Pool on the switch. Now the question is that how hosts located on different VLANs get IP Addresses from the same s...
Hi All,When we use extended system id, the vlans can be identified because, Bridge Priority = Configured Value + VLAN Number. Thus the switch recieving a BPDU from another switch identifies the VLAN for which this BPDU is recieved.However, when we do...
Dear Alain,Thanks for your reply. But what I want to know is that how a switch will behave for a VLAN which is not activated on it but is activated on other switches. For example, what will be the STP Topology for VLAN 6, which is only activated on ...
Thanks all for your kind support.But i am still confused that how would the STP enabled switch detect a loop if the OFS is not forwarding any of it's own BPDUs. Even if the OFS System replicates the BPDUs generated by the STP Enabled switch back to i...
Thanks all for your kind support.Dear Giuseppe,Can you please explain a bit deeper that even, if a switch uses a different MAC Address for every STP instance, how does it help the neighbors to recognize the VLAN from which it belongs?Best Regards,
Hi Raza,Thanks for reply,but due to certain reasons i cannot budle the two links into a port channel. Sorry for not mentioning this beforfe.Best Regards
