spantree. No redundant links

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- tony
  
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17 years ago

Fri, Oct 20, 2006 5:45 PM

Do I need to worry about spanning tree if I have no redundant or failover links?

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- Martin Bilgrav
  
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17 years ago

Fri, Oct 20, 2006 6:59 PM

depends.... Do you like the idea, that your hole network is down, because a silly user plugged both ends of a UTP cable into the switch ? (This actually happends alot more than ppl like to think!)

STP gives you a loopfree environment, so if you worry about loops, then STP can help you.

HTH Martin

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- Markus Marquardt
  
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17 years ago

Fri, Oct 20, 2006 10:03 PM

Somewhere i read about the injection of malicious STP packets for DoS attacks and other bad things... so what would be the best way to achieve both, security and loop free connections?

Regards, Markus

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- Markus Marquardt
  
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17 years ago

Fri, Oct 20, 2006 10:09 PM

BPDU guard?

Regards, Markus

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