[c-nsp] STP and customer ports

[Keegan Holley]

I"m not sure you have a choice.  If there are redundant links in the design
then spanning tree is the only way to prevent loops (unless you're running
TRILL or something like that).  If you don't have any redundant links then
spanning tree can't cause much damage, although I would still leave it
enabled.

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Jay Nakamura <zeusdadog at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there any good reason to turn on STP on a switch port to a
> customer?  It seems like it could cause more trouble than preventing a
> loop.  What's your common practice?  What if you hand off two
> connection for redundancy?
>
> I am in the middle of converting to MSTP from a network that didn't
> really have any STP design or goals.
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