Hi Folks, Just wanted to run something by and see if anyone knows, thinks, belives in something regarding possible spanning tree changes between the 3550 and the 3524. Note this doesn't affect operation in anyway. A friend of mine has a closet with 4 3524XL's all clustered. Lately he threw a 3550 on to the tail of the cluster. Well vtp and all works just dandy and all. The only thing he worries about is that the little LED over the gbic slot blinks a lot more often than the other giga-stacks do. Going by the other blinky lights, I note that any extra traffic, if any, does not exit out the gbic fiber, nor show up in the other ports on the switch. Only the steady pulse of the STP working there. Nothing wrong speed wise.. full 100mb/s works great.
The only explanation I can foster about this is that whatever little mechanism inside the switch that decides *when* to blink has gotten a lot more granular and thus blinks a whole lot more, while the 3524's more stupid ancestors only blink for higher level things. I can see very little difference in the configs other than a mandatory 'spanning-tree extend system-id' and I can't go and load a sniffer onto the giga-stacks so I'm rather left in the dark. I wouldn't worry much about this but he asks me about it everytime I talk to him. Seems worried about 'what ifs' when he goes to stack more 3550's.. Anyone know anything? Thanks in advance, Dave Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=71688&t=71688 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
