Virtual Wire Pair, HA and BPDU

[jonathanaxford]

Hi All, 

I'm trying to answer the following questions for a design and can't locate an answer in the docs:

- Does a Virtual Wire Pair forward Spanning tree BPDUs by default. 

- If running an Active/Passive HA cluster, how does the passive node deal with traffic that hits the VWP interface. (Does it drop it until it becomes active?)

Any help much appreciated, 

Jon

[emnoc]

1: no options exist to enable stp forwarding in the vwire cfg, You will need to do it in the interface members config system interface. I do not recall any means to craft a policy and to add BPDUs

2: yes, any traffic on the inactive unit is ignored from processing But I have not ran VWP on a HA fgt. Maybe some one can chime in

Ken Felix

[jonathanaxford]

Thanks for the input Ken. Ideally, I don't want BPDUs to be forwarded as that simplifies my STP design overall! 

I'll see if I can lab this out...