[c-nsp] Maximum spannig tree instances

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 08:58:53PM -0800, Christopher E. Brown wrote:
> Come on guys, study the proto a little before going off.

We did...

> In order for MST to work all members of an MST domain *MUST* agree on
> the VLAN -> MST group mapping.
> 
> If you change the mapping it must update across all members of the domain.
> 
> YOU ARE REDEFINING THE STP TOPOLOGY

... and that's just not workable for Real Networks that undergo daily 
changes, and have wildly differing VLAN topologies.  Especially the latter
one ("due to traffic reasons, we have to move the STP active link for
VLAN 714 to *this* trunk").

gert
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