You could deploy rapid spanning tree. It does not care about diameter, instead the max-age effectively defines your upper bound.
Dale Thus spake Victor Sudakov ([email protected]) on Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 04:09:06PM +0700: > Colleagues, > > I have a train of about 20 C3560X switches connected successively. > I know such a diameter is not good for STP, however, when I place the > root bridge in the middle of the train, PVST still works more or > less reliably. > > However, if I wanted to divide this single STP domain into several > smaller ones, which way is best? > > I can define three geographical areas between which no loop is > physically possible and which cannot have any redundant links between > one another. > > Should I just configure a bpdufilter on the border switches to > separate the areas, or is there a smarter way, maybe going for MST > instead of PVST? > > Thanks in advance for any input. > > > -- > Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN > sip:[email protected] > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
