STP root guard
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Jan 17, 2006
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Sep 11, 2000
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The Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) chooses a root switch. Each of the other switches has a 'root' port and one or more 'designated ports(s)' chosen by STP. Packets are transmitted upstream toward the root switch through the root port, and packets designated for downstream switches from the root switch are received by the root port and transmitted through the designated ports. In the invention, an administrator of the core network identifies which switch ports in the core network are boundary ports to customer networks. The administrator designates the boundary ports as 'root guard protected' ports (RG ports). The STP then executes as required by the ordinary STP protocol, and if a RG port is selected by the STP to be a root portm then the status of the port is set to 'blocked,' and no packets are transmitted through the port.
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