I'm not sure what RSTP is and don't want to research it currently, but I can tell you about one painful scenario:
a few years ago, Thinkpads (might have been IBM, or maybe it was just after the Lenovo change) shipped with some software that offered to help you manage the wireless networking. If the laptop was plugged into ethernet and then joined a wireless network, it would offer to bridge the connections. Saying "yes" would create a packet storm on our building network. We had a few of the storms over several months. It seems like that bridging option was dropped from the Thinkpads eventually (or you could switch to windows zero config and avoid it). Maybe do a search on "arp storm", I think that is what was happening. On April 18, at 10:42 PM April 18, Rogelio wrote: > A friend told me that if a computer wifi connection supports RSTP, > and if > I'm, say, logged on a wired network *and* logged on one of my wireless > network devices that I could create some sort of RSTP disaster (a > loop, > perhaps?) > > I'm not quite sure I understand this and was hoping someone here > might point > me in the right direction to understanding. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
