Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 6 years ago. Improve this question So I’ve been the self taught IT guy in my household for quite some time. I have a household with incredibly high traffic. … Read more
Last week, I ran Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) in Linux kernel successfully. Now, I am trying to support Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) in Linux kernel. I also found out some solutions in user space such as mstp (https://github.com/mstpd/mstpd). However, I want to find a solution in the kernel. I searched patch from internet but … Read more
Here’s the situation: There is a bridge that has the lowest ID within a loop. This bridge has two ports, both with equal cost to the root, how does STP decide which port is forwarding, and which port is blocking? Does it find the port with the highest ID and block on that port? If … Read more
tl;dr: Is it possible to run RSTP over l2tp or MPLS? We have leased one gig capacity from a service provider’s network, over which we sent a udp multicast traffic. The provider gives us drop at our PoPs at different locations and we terminate the link in our switch at each PoP. The provider uses … Read more
We have a set of devices connected in a ring, that are using stp (using https://github.com/mstpd/mstpd at the moment) to avoid issues with the loop. What we have seen, is that while stp can adapt the network when a link is fully broken, it ignores a situation where one of the links sees high packet … Read more
I want to create a multi-VM pfsense cluster ESXI. For those that are not familiar with pfsense, consider it a Free BSD based router/switch (with many features on top of it, but not necessary for this question). Basically, I want to have two physical NICs on the ESXI – an “Input” and an “Output”. The … Read more
I have a Catalyst 2900 that’s sending out an STP packet about once ever 1-2 seconds. Is that excessive? Answer Is that excessive? In short: No. You can start getting worried once you start seeing ARP request frequencies three or four orders of magnitude more than that. As an aside, your screenshot does not show … Read more
I want to make a certain switch in the network root, but all I remember is the command “set spantree root vlan-id” Sadly, the “set” command is not available on this switch. How do I proceed? EDIT: I think I did it with the following command, in config mode: spanning-tree vlan <number> root primary Sadly, … Read more
I look after a network with 11 x new HP v1910 24-port 1GB switches and 2 x HP 4204vl 1GB Chassis switches. I’m looking for software to enable me to: Map the network graphically – there are a lot of fibre and copper LACP links Provide a single view of the state of the network … Read more
I’m trying to figure out the appropriate spanning tree protocol settings for a redundant network topology I’m in the process of implementing. The graphic demonstrates what the physical layer will look like(everything in question is labeled accordingly). I’m running all dell powerconnect series switches(2848’s & 6224’s). R1 R2 | | | | | | RSW1—RSW2 … Read more
