Friday, February 9, 2018

STP with Transparent Firewall in Middle

Diagram

MEC is not possible.

Routing/Routed mode is not possible.

FW1 is in transparent mode - forwarding L2 frames.

How does spanning tree play in this scenario?

It seems to me that SW3 will receive two BPDUs on the same portchannel interface:

  • A. Original BPDU from SW1 which is fine
  • B. Higher cost BPDU forwarded by SW2 which can make the port turn into blocking?


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