Configuring the Device to Transparently Transmit BPDUs
Context
When the backbone edge device connects to many user edge devices, to improve efficiency in forwarding BPDUs, the backbone edge device forwards BPDUs through the hardware. By default, a Layer 2 interface is not allowed to forward BPDUs when the device forwards BPDUs through the hardware. User edge devices connected to the backbone edge device cannot communicate. A Layer 2 interface can be enabled to forward BPDUs when the device forwards BPDUs through the hardware.
To ensure that tagged BPDUs are forwarded by a Layer 2 interface and untagged BPDUs are sent to the CPU for processing, enable the device to forward only tagged BPDUs through the hardware.