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[carl_townshend]

Hi all, wehn you add a new switch to a network, am I right in saying until it recieve a bpdu from a neighbour telling it about who the root switch, the new switch assumes its the root ?

[vijayasankar]

Hi Carl,

When any switch initialises/ introduced to a new network, they assume themselves as root and start transmitting BPDUs.

From the neighboring switch also, they receive BPDU, which may have a better information regarding the root bridge.

The switch then uses the information contained in the received BPDU to make decision/understand the topology of the network/elect a bridge as root.

-VJ