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BCMSN Question. STP States
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| When a transparent bridge is first installed and powered up the inital states the ports go into are blocking. Then the ports transition from a blocking state to a Listen state. My question is if a switch has redundant links it determines the designated or root port and goes into a fowarding state. Do the end nodes connected to the switch ports also go into a fowarding state if they are connected?
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| When you say end nodes are you referring to workstations?
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| Could you clear this up please. I am having problems trying to figure out this question.
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Originally posted by The Reamer:
When you say end nodes are you referring to workstations?
Reamer
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| Sorry. I do mean workstations/servers. I have been reading the BCMSN book and I think I found the awnser there. It says "The switch examines all BPDUs that are being advertised on its ports. Ports connected to devices such as workstations and servers wont recieve BPDUs because they have no path to the root bridge" I think the book goes on to say that any ports that are connected and are not recieving BPDU's will be placed in a fowarding state, and any ports that are not connected when a redundent link is present will be placed in a blocking state. Please let me know if im right.
Thanks
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