Martin,

Max-age is still used to define how long a switch waits without hearing
BPDUs to re-compute the spanning-tree:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst3560/software/release/12.2_46_se/command/reference/cli3.html#wp1946429

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Martin Dimkovski <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Task 3.5 in volume 1 asks to configure switches, which are running MST, to
> "determine reachability problems within 15 seconds". The proctor guide
> suggests this to mean that the MaxAge timer needs to be set to 15 seconds.
> But doesn't MST run an RSTP (802.1w) flavor, and isn't MaxAge useless there?
>
> RSTP neighbour loss is declared after 3 missed Hellos, which would be 9
> seconds, already below the 15 seconds.
>
> Thanks,
> Martin
>
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