Unlike the BPDU Guard which will disable a port upon receipt of a BPDU, the Spanning Tree Root Guard feature will allow BPDU’s through a port to maintain the spanning tree topology, however if it receives a superior BPDU, which indicates that another switch is trying to become the root bridge it will err-disable the [...]
Spanning Tree Port States
Rapid Spanning Tree 802.1w reduced the number of port states from 5 down to 3 this short blog post details the 5 STP port states for Spanning Tree 802.1d and then Rapid Spanning Tree – as always these posts are purely my study notes which I hope can be of use to somebody else and [...]
