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MSTP treats neighbors differently on access ports and trunks - why?

Peter Paluch
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Dear friends,

I have been recently playing with MSTP more closely, trying to get better under its hood, and one issue surprised me: when a MSTP-enabled switch detects a RSTP neighbor on an access port, it speaks to it using RSTP as expected. The same behavior can be observed if the neighbor is another MSTP switch that belongs to a different region - the two switches fall back to using RSTP on the link.

However, if the link interconecting the two switches is a trunk then the MSTP reverts to PVST+ operation, not to RPVST+ as I originally expected. Is there any reason for that?

Thank you very much for all your insight!

Best regards,

Peter

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Peter Paluch
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

Dear friends,

I am bumping this topic shamelessly Does anyone have a clue about this behavior? Thanks to anyone!

Best regards,

Peter

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