I haven't turned on STP. Is there any downfall to doing so?

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Glenn Kelley <[email protected]> wrote:

> That is about the best way to do it.
> Biggest thing is to find which tower its happening on.
>
> If you have the ability to subnet / segment towers into different ranges -
> This helps a great deal.
>
> In short - you can have each sector or backhaul to other towers on their
> own segment - so the entire network does not go down but rather 1 leg.
> If your using a good switch - enable STP (Spanning Tree Protocol) and voila
> - the rest of your network is saved.
>
> NOW ... IMPORTANT ...
>
> If your equipment (and UBNT Does) all supports STP - turn it on.
>
> If you have a few legs to the network all under 1 segment - (ie - you use a
> backhaul to a remote location and then tree out from there) one section or
> branch of the tree might shut off - but everyone else would stay live.
> Really handy on a long summer weekend for sure.
>
> It simply tells you what direction to head
>
> :-)
>
>
> On Aug 9, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Forbes Mercy wrote:
>
>  Ron,
>
> I'm not really sure if you're asking about what I looked for in WireShark
> or just where is WireShark?  The program I just got from google.  Ultimately
> I went to the tower where the problem was and isolated it from the network.
> Shut off everyone and turned them on one at a time, the IP Conflict occurred
> immediately when that person was on.  I went to their house and the
> Bullet(Ubiquiti) wouldn't reset so I pulled it, replaced it and problem
> gone... a VERY long weekend!  Let me know if you need any other help.  Those
> guys with the shirts that say how bad bridging a large network is are right
> on!
>
> Forbes
>
> On 8/9/2010 8:20 AM, Ron Wallace wrote:
>
>  Forbes,
>
> I am experiencing a Similar or The same problem You had.  Could you share
> the Wireshark you learned from Brett?
>
>  Ron Wallace
> Hahnron, Inc.
> 220 S. Jackson Dt.
> Addison, MI 49220
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* Forbes Mercy 
> [mailto:[email protected]<[email protected]>
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> *Sent:* Monday, August 2, 2010 12:21 AM
> *To:* 'WISPA General List'
> *Subject:* Re: [WISPA] I NEED HELP
>
> Hey whoever forwarded my issue to Brett thanks, he pointed out how to
> isolate individual bridges with WireShark. I did that and found the tower,
> it's too late today but having that tower down brought the rest of the
> system back up. As Marlon said "so will you be routed tomorrow?" Well maybe
> not tomorrow but the switchover from Bridged to Routed is about my highest
> priority now. I missed a great summer weekend chasing this down and all of
> you helped me tremendously. Thanks so much for once again reminding me how
> great it is being in WISPA. Forbes
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