On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Marc Quibell wrote:
> I have a simple question, and one which I cannot readily answer at this
> time. Can I safely connect TWO switch ports from a Cisco 5509 (two different
> switch blades) to a hub to increase the hub's crossconnection bandwidth,
> without having a looping problem? The hub is actually a DEC multi-blade,
> with a swithced backplane. The hub is also connect on two different blades,
> but the same backplane. TIA!
>
> btw, I have already done this and I figured if spanning tree found a looping
> problem, it wouldv'e set one of the ports to a non-forwarding state..
Correct, so long as you have STP enabled you are ok.
Brian
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