Tuesday, July 16, 2013

BACKBONEFAST

  • Not fast as uplinkfast due to link failure at some where else at upstream of root port 
  • Indirect failure, start recalculate stp
  • i.e. there is a problem at upstream of root port and root bridge is not reachable.
  • After a failure of upstream, upstream bridge advertise inferior BPDU(worse cost to root) to root port.
  • send Root Link Query(specific for BackBoneFast & ask Do u have alternate path)  
  • then root port containing bridge understand there is link failure to reach root bridge,
    • and expires max-age time(defaultly 20sec) and recalculate path costs
  • when baackbonefast is used time to reconverge is only the listen&learn time only, no max-age
  • spanning tree backbonefast on global mode

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