Hello group,
In practice you must configure the edge port towards the servers or equipment that are not capable of setting up an stp loop, it also prevents a TC from being generated in case the port drops and raises (example restarting the server connected to the switch) this keeps stable L2 topology and mac tables avoiding unnecessary flushing. The edge port will work as such and will go to the forwarding state without going through the previous states of rsvp / mst, therefore the server will have the ethernet connection available immediately when connected. In case the edge port receives a bpdu, it will behave like a normal port. But you must be careful not to configure this against other devices participating in the l2 topology as it will cause small loops that can affect the availability of the network.
When a port is configured as an edge port, the switch still sends BPDUs, it does not stop doing it, so that it stops doing it, the stp disable command must be configured, it is not recommended at all.
