>----- Original Message -----
>From: AndyD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Newsgroups: groupstudy.cisco
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 8:58 AM
>Subject: Equal cost switching
>
> > Spanning tree is supposed to choose the one best switched path. But if
>you
> > set up two equal cost paths, will it use both?
No, I don't think so.
> Is there a way to force it
> > to use the bandwidth from both paths?
Cisco lets you implement one spanning-tree per VLAN. So with redundant
links and VLANs, you can accomplish what you want. I can't remember exactly
how it works, but I think you put every port in two VLANs. I talked about
this in my book, Top-Down Network Design, and you can see the figure for
the design here:
http://www.priscilla.com/topdownupdates.html
Hope this helps a bit. Maybe somebody else remembers more details. (I
didn't get into the details in my book, and now I've forgotten them! &;-)
Priscilla
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
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