Care to explain? What's wrong with simple loop-protect on an edge port facing a dumb customer?

On 10/25/2016 3:07 PM, Josh Reynolds wrote:

*facepalm*


On Oct 25, 2016 3:06 PM, "George Skorup" <geo...@cbcast.com <mailto:geo...@cbcast.com>> wrote:

    Lots of switch vendors and even MikroTik (in the 6.37 branch,
    IIRC) support loop protection. If all you care about is stopping a
    loop, then use that. Use STP if you need its functionality.

    On 10/25/2016 1:16 PM, Josh Reynolds wrote:

    If one of the ports has a loop, it will block only that port.
    Obviously, disable STP on uplinks.


    On Oct 25, 2016 1:08 PM, "Chuck McCown" <ch...@wbmfg.com
    <mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>> wrote:

        But if you only have one upstream connection and you fall, it
        isn’t going to do anything, right?
        *From:* Josh Reynolds
        *Sent:* Tuesday, October 25, 2016 12:01 PM
        *To:* af@afmug.com
        *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] stp

        STP is a safety net. Its not doing much unless you fall.

        On Oct 25, 2016 12:44 PM, "Chuck McCown" <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote:

            How can STP being enabled help anything if you are not
            using it?
            *From:* Josh Luthman
            *Sent:* Tuesday, October 25, 2016 10:10 AM
            *To:* af@afmug.com
            *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] stp
            I just learned the other day thanks to Steve the Mikrotik
            software bridges are (R?) STP by default.
            Josh Luthman
            Office: 937-552-2340 <tel:937-552-2340>
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            On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Bill Prince
            <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:

                Actually Netonix (one t, no r). I don't know that I
                would leave it on, but I don't know how you're using it.

                    https://www.netonix.com/wisp-switch.html
                    <https://www.netonix.com/wisp-switch.html>

                bp
                <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>

                On 10/25/2016 9:04 AM, Josh Reynolds wrote:

                Nettonix.

                You could always leave it on... If your access
                network is layer2 up to that switch, it could help.

                On Oct 25, 2016 11:03 AM, "CBB - Jay Fuller"
                <par...@cyberbroadband.net> wrote:

                    just discovered on one of our nettronix switches
                    spanning tree protocol was enabled.
                    we've run this switch probably four months - no
                    real side effects - but i don't run stp anywhere
                    else. any reason to leave this on?
                    thanks




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