Re: [c-nsp] MST spanning-tree

2009-07-26 Thread David Hughes
Hi You'll need to pre-configure your vlan mappings. This was discussed on this list only last week. When we moved from RPVST to MST we went from odds-and-evens mapping to "blocks of 50 vlans" mapping. It makes the config a whole lot smaller :) All in all it's working well and when the

Re: [c-nsp] MST spanning-tree

2009-07-23 Thread harbor235
When adding ports to a spanning-tree instance, spanning-tree discovers and eliminates loops in the topology. What your are experiencing is an "as designed" feature of spanning tree. You can segment your layer2 domain via PVST/PVST+ or you can segment your layer 2 domain using MST via customer span

Re: [c-nsp] MST spanning-tree

2009-07-23 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 01:34:01PM -0400, Steven Fischer wrote: > It seems that we can create VLANs with no issue, and by default, those VLANs > are placed in the default instance, instance 0. This really isn't a > problem, but when we move the VLAN into its proper instance, a spanning-tree > reca

[c-nsp] MST spanning-tree

2009-07-23 Thread Steven Fischer
When we relocated our data center, we opted to deploy MST as the spanning-tree protocol, given that our data center is almost exclusively layer 2, we have a lot of vlans, and that number is only going to grow. We have two spanning-tree MST instances, 1 and 2, and each contains the vlans that are e