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Can turn off the BPDU Guard and BPDU Filter ?

 
David_Look
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Can turn off the BPDU Guard and BPDU Filter ?

What is the BPDU Guard and BPDU Filter?

If turn off the BPDU Guard and BPDU Filter, what will effect?

 

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Richard Brodie_1
Honored Contributor

Re: Can turn off the BPDU Guard and BPDU Filter ?

BPDU (bridge protocol data unit) is standards speak for spanning tree packet.

 

BPDU guard protects against unauthorized switches (including software implementations) from making changes to your spanning tree topology. You can very easily DoS a network this way, and there is no authentication mechanism that I know of. It disables the port on receiving a spanning tree message.

 

BPDU filter just discards spanning tree packets on arrival, and also stops them being sent. It's effectively disabling spanning tree on the port. It's slightly more risky than BPDU guard, because if you use it too liberally you run the risk of creating loops.

 

David_Look
Frequent Visitor

Re: Can turn off the BPDU Guard and BPDU Filter ?

Dear Richard Brodie 1

 

spanning-tree
spanning-tree 2 admin-edge-port
no spanning-tree 2 auto-edge-port
spanning-tree 2 root-guard bpdu-filter bpdu-protection
spanning-tree 4 admin-edge-port
no spanning-tree 4 auto-edge-port
spanning-tree 4 root-guard bpdu-filter bpdu-protection

Richard Brodie_1
Honored Contributor

Re: Can turn off the BPDU Guard and BPDU Filter ?