Enhancements
Release M.10.17 Enhancements
STP — Spanning Tree Protocol, part of the original IEEE 802.1D specification. The 2004 edition completely deprecates STP. Both RSTP and MSTP have fallback modes to handle STP.
SNMP — Simple Network Management Protocol, used to remotely manage network devices.
Note
The switches covered in these Release Notes, use the IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) standard. Under standard settings, your
The following commands allow you to configure BPDU protection via the CLI.
Syntax: [no]
Enables/disables the BPDU protection feature on a port
Syntax: [no]
Enables/disables the sending of errant BPDU traps.
For example, to configure BPDU protection on ports 1 to 10, enter:
ProCurve(config)#
When BPDU protection is enabled, the following steps are set in process:
1.When an STP BPDU packet is received, STP treats it as an unauthorized transmission attempt and shuts down the port that the BPDU came in on.
2.An event message is logged and an SNMP notification trap is generated.
3.The port remains disabled until
Caution
This command should only be used to guard edge ports that are not expected to participate in STP operations. Once BPDU protection is enabled, it will disable the port as soon as any BPDU packet is received on that interface.
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