Kinda silly replying to my own message but I'm sure there are others who
might want to know the answer. I talked with TAC, and one of their people
said that nine switches is the limit before you start having network
problems. However, they really don't recommend you to have over seven
chained together and that is why the limited the STP network diameter
parameter because over this amount STP is unlikely to work correctly due
to the timer values being so high.
Hope this is useful to someone,
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Jon Mitchell
Systems Engineer, Subject Wills & Company
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On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 07:37:23AM -0500, Jon Mitchell wrote:
>
> Didn't get a response the first time, but was sent during the mailserver
> outage. I think this is a pretty easy one (hopefully).
>
> How many layer 2 switchs can I run together in series before I have some
> sort of delay problem? I don't think the 5-4-3 rule applies here? I have
> a client that has 9 switches connected one to another in series like
> one big chain. Is this a problem?
>
> What if it's looped, is there some problem with pushing the BPDU's around
> to big of a circle? Cisco's implementation of spanning tree adjusts the
> timers based on network diameter, but they only allow a maximum diameter
> of 7 (for the parameter) according to the BCMSN book.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
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> Systems Engineer, Subject Wills & Company
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