Do I need to worry about spanning tree if I have no redundant or failover links?
spantree. No redundant links
Oct 20, 2006
3 Replies
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
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
BPDU guard?
Regards, Markus
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