Wednesday, July 17, 2013

STP BPDU filter


  • Filter incoming and outgoing BPDU
  • Configure on interface and globally
  • disable stp by dropping bpdu packets
  • applied at access layer
    • to block stp information reaching the end hosts for security pupose
  • sh spannig-tree counters 
  • disadvantage:
    • some times end host sends BPDU(run stp) at that time we can't get that bpdus due to bpdu filter
  • If config with portfast on global mode, bpdu filter enable on each port fast containing port.
    • and also allow the incoming bpdus, as-usually block the outgoing bpdus