[c-nsp] backup with STP

[Andrew Fort]

Aivars wrote:
> I would not dare to use STP/RSTP with customer. Customer mistakes can influence your
> network badly. Hard to troubleshoot.
> 
> Aivars

I concur strongly.  If the customer is worth enough to you that they 
want/should-get redundancy, you should put your own equipment on their 
site and offer them ports from that.  Redundancy is expensive :)

Not to mention that mixing STP/RSTP/MSTP boundaries is not really the 
best thing for convergence times or network predictability.

-andrew

> 
> Tuesday, September 27, 2005, 2:22:48 PM, you wrote:
> 
> MT> Hello!
> MT> Our client connects to us using switch and two different fiber links.
> MT> Client's switch supports Spanning Tree (802.1D) only, on my side - catalyst
> MT> 3550 (now: mode rapid-pvst).
> MT> Can I build L2 backup using stp?
> 
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