Jason is right. This will defeat the purpose of Spanning Tree of creating a
single path to a destination. The primary reason this was designed was to
prevent broadcast loops.
If you want to force it to use 2 paths to one destination, use
port-channelling which statically load-balances traffic going out of two
ports. Statically meaning it creates a list of source-destination MAC
address pairs and these pair will communicate from a specific port
configured to be part of the port-channel. This is in contrary to Dynamic
load-balancing where each packet will go out of each port of the
port-channel.
With this in mind, if 4 ports are configured for 100 Mbps full-duplex
port-channels, this doesn't mean it provides an 800Mbps link.
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> Spanning tree is supposed to choose the one best switched path. But if
you
> set up two equal cost paths, will it use both? Is there a way to force it
> to use the bandwidth from both paths?
>
> Thanks!
>
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