> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Chuong Dao > > Thank you all for your inputs. So far, I think my best/cheap solution is to get a > few that support bdpu to run the core and the existing switches for the > edge.
But the edge is where loops happen, unless you've got enough network outlets, in which case you only have core switches. For that matter, when a loop happens on a little edge switch, it generally doesn't bring down the whole network anyway, because it will tax that poor little edge switch but the poor little edge switch only has one uplink back to the core. So having STP on the core switches wouldn't even help you in that situation anyway. End result: Enable STP on all the ports that you don't want to go down. If you are going to plug in all the laptops to non-STP switches, and plug all the servers into STP switches, then great. That might help the servers stay up, but the server room isn't where loops happen anyway... I don't know, I guess I'm just trying to say, any half-solution isn't going to do you any good. If you want to solve it, spend the money and solve it. Otherwise, it won't be solved. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
