[c-nsp] 65th VLAN

Vincent De Keyzer vincent at dekeyzer.net
Thu Nov 23 11:46:01 EST 2006


Hmmm... the thing is, I now realise that although I had 65 VLANs, I only had
61 STP instances (because of VLANs 1002 to 1005 that did not have one).

So I didn't quite exhaust my STP instances, did I?

Vincent
 

> are you running PVST? are/were all 65 VLANs in use through that switch.
> from
> observed habaviour, nornally what happens is that the switch will,
> arbitrarily
> disable spanning tree on a VLAN to get its value back to 64 - and if that
> VLAN
> has a secondary spanning  tree route, that unleashes the network hounds of
> hell.



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