Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Software Configuration Guide

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Chapter 23 Configuring STP and MST
About Detecting Unidirectional Link Failure
• It may result in loss of connectivity. For example, in Figure 23-4, Bridge A cannot transmit on the
port it elected as a root port. As a result of this situation, there is loss of connectivity (r1 and r2 are
designated, a1 is root and a2 is alternate. There is only a one way connectivity between A and R).
Figure 23-4 Loss of Connectivity
•
It may cause permanent bridging loops on shared segments. For example, in Figure 23-5, suppose
that bridge R has the best priority, and that port b1 cannot receive any traffic from the shared
segment 1 and sends inferior designated information on segment 1. Both r1 and a1 can detect this
inconsistency. However, with the current dispute mechanism, only r1 will revert to discarding while
the root port a1 opens a permanent loop. However, this problem does not occur in Layer 2 switched
networks that are connected by point-to-point links.
Figure 23-5 Bridging Loops on Shared Segments
This example shows the spanning tree status when port Gi3/14 has been configured to disable PVST+
simulation and the port is currently in the peer type inconsistent state:
Switch# show spanning-tree
VLAN0010
Spanning tree enabled protocol rstp
Root ID Priority 32778
Address 0002.172c.f400
This bridge is the root
Hello Time 2 sec Max Age 20 sec Forward Delay 15 sec
Bridge ID Priority 32778 (priority 32768 sys-id-ext 10)
Address 0002.172c.f400
Hello Time 2 sec Max Age 20 sec Forward Delay 15 sec
Aging Time 300
Interface Role Sts Cost Prio.Nbr Type
---------------- ---- --- --------- -------- -------------------------
Gi3/14 Desg BKN 4 128.270 P2p Dispute
Alternate port
Unidirectional link
failure
Root port
Segment 2
354162
Segment 1
r1 a1
a2r1
RA
Alternate port
Unidirectional link
failure
Root port
Segment 2
Segment 3
354163
Segment 1
a1 b1
b2a2
a3
R
r1
r1
RB

Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Specifications

General

Series	Catalyst 4500 Series
Category	Switch
Layer Support	Layer 2, Layer 3
Form Factor	Modular chassis
Stackable	No
Chassis Slots	3, 6, 7, 10
Power Supply Options	AC, DC
Redundancy	Power supply, Supervisor engine
Network Management	Cisco IOS Software CLI, SNMP, Cisco Prime Infrastructure
Features	Security, QoS
Port Density	Up to 384 ports per chassis
Security Features	802.1X, ACLs, DHCP Snooping, Dynamic ARP Inspection, IP Source Guard
Supervisor Engine	8-E