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I believe there is also knob to disable spanning tree in Brocade per
interface.

IIRC something like no spanning-tree under the interface will do the trick.

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Dan Winkel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I over simplified my explanation because it makes me look bad. Here is the
> full breakdown if you are interested...
>
> We are using a Brocade CER. Last night we upgraded from 5.5e to 5.6g.
>
> Here is the syntax change as documented by RANCID:
>
>   mac access-list BLOCKSPAN
> -  deny any 0180.c200.0000 ffff.ffff.ffff any etype any
> -  permit any any any etype any
> +  sequence 10 deny any 0180.c200.0000 ffff.ffff.ffff any etype any
> +  sequence 20 permit any any any etype any
>
>
> That change happened automatically and worked fine. We had a separate
> (possibly unrelated) issue this morning and decided to rollback the code
> just in case. I wasn’t aware we were rolling back when I sent my query.
>
> If I would have waited a few more minutes (or looked at the config more
> closely or talked to the engineer) RANCID would have told me the downgrade
> was not as graceful and just deleted the access-list:
>
> - mac access-list BLOCKSPAN
> -  sequence 10 deny any 0180.c200.0000 ffff.ffff.ffff any etype any
> -  sequence 20 permit any any any etype any
>
>
> Sorry for bothering everyone with our internal issue. In hindsight it was
> pretty obvious what happened. My only excuse is I am the only person in the
> office today because we got 14” of snow last night.
>
> Thanks for all the help.
> Dan
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> On 3/24/16, 10:36 AM, "MICE Discuss on behalf of Mike Horwath" <
> [log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> >On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 03:26:33PM +0000, Dan Winkel wrote:
> >> That was the case. A code upgrade last night changed the syntax of
> >> the BPDU blocking code.
> >
> >What are you using that a change like this happens?
> >
> >Just wondering so I can get smarter.
> >
> >--
> >Mike Horwath, reachable via [log in to unmask]
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