[c-nsp] L2 STP issue

Christina Klam cklam at ias.edu
Thu May 6 10:13:45 EDT 2010


P.A,
I had a similar issue with Foundry switches and cisco.  Try setting the
spanning-tree priority.  For us, this stop the spanning-tree topology
changes.


> The cisco 6509 is running rapid-pvst and the HP switches are running rstp.
> The cisco was the root bridge and all HP's saw the cisco as the bridge
> however I ran into issues where everything would work as expected for
> several minutes, 7 -10 min, and then parts of the network would become
> inaccessible all of the sudden without it ever bring up a redundant path. I
> also saw numerous STP topology changes etc on the HP switches while this was
> going on.

-- Christina


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