The 7210 SAS-R6 and 7210 SAS-R12 devices, reserves some entries in the L2 FIB table for use with xSTP, L2PT and BPDU translation. A fixed amount of such resources are available per node. The user has an option to allocate these resources to services, where they plan to use one of these protocols, at service creation time. This is achieved with the new CLI parameter allow-l2pt-xstp-bpdu [enable | disable]. This is a mandatory parameter that the user must configure if they plan to enable one of these protocols in the service. The software fails any attempt to enable these protocols if this parameter has not been configured for the service.