Why Spanning Tree Bpdu Filter Is Used?

It can be used to exclude specific ports from becoming part of spanning tree operations. A port with the BPDU filter enabled will ignore incoming BPDU packets on all VLANs where the port is a member, and stay locked in the spanning tree forwarding state. All other ports will maintain their role.

What is BPDU filter?

BPDU filter is a feature used to filter sending or receiving BPDUs on a switchport. ... When configured globally all portfast enabled ports stop sending and receiving BPDUs, but if a BPDU is received on the port it gets out of the portfast state and normally participate in the spanning tree calculations.

Can I use BPDU filter on trunk ports?

A BPDU is a data message transmitted across a local area network to detect loops in network topologies. Guard feature can be enabled on any of the STP. ... Guard feature on a trunk port that forms the STP. STP is a network protocol that builds a logical loop-free topology for Ethernet networks.

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