[c-nsp] spanning-tree and redundant links

[David J. Hughes]

On 23/09/2006, at 7:30 AM, <raa at opusnet.com> <raa at opusnet.com> wrote:

> Back to Jon Mendoza's point, if I did it this way, I could  
> distribute the
> load on the switches.  Say the next Vlan I setup is Vlan20 and I  
> make the
> HSRP active router and root bridge for vlan20 6509-sw2.

A very common practice is to do exactly this and to root the odd  
vlans on one switch and the evens on the other.  Works just fine in a  
PVST environment.  If you are going to go nuts on the vlan front and  
plan to run MST then you should use a large block oriented allocation  
method as odds vs evens will result in a huge MST config on all your  
access switches.


David
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