Re: [Bridge-mib] IETF-54 meeting

On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 08:47:20AM +0100, Les Bell wrote:
>Mike, thanks for your comments on draft-ietf-bridge-bridgemib-smiv2-03.txt.  I
>shall try to respond to your first issue on dot1dStpPortEnable.
[snip]
>My own interpretation is as follows:
>
>  If dot1dStpPortEnable is set to enabled(1) the port should participate
>  normally in Spanning Tree and in forwarding traffic.
>
>  If dot1dStpPortEnable is set to disabled(2) the port should not
>  participate in Spanning Tree, received BPDUs should be discarded, and
>  the port should not participate in Layer 2 forwarding of traffic,
>  although it may participate in Layer 3 forwarding.
>
>I would like to hear the views of the group, to see if they agree or disagree
>with this interpretation.  I would particularly like to hear the views of the
>original authors of RFC1493.

I agree and believe this 'clarifying' text resolve 
the existing incompatiblities between vendor implementations.

Thank you,
Mike MacFaden

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