Disabled state

A port in the disabled state does not participate in frame forwarding or STP. A port in the disabled state is virtually non-operational. Note that this STP port state should not be confused with the port’s administrative state.

A disabled port does the following:

Discards packets received from the network segment to which it is attached.

Discards packets sent from another port on the bridge for forwarding.

Does not add addresses to its forwarding database.

Neither receives nor transmits BPDUs.

The following illustration shows the actions that occur when a port is in the disabled state.

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