Per my other post, STP prevents looping traffic in general, not simply broadcasts.
Pete
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On 2/19/2001 at 6:50 AM Kenneth wrote:
>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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