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Spanning tree settings on RBR50
Where does one find the Spanning Tree setting on the RBR50 router?
I am not aware of any customer settings in the RBR50 for this feature:
So, does that mean that it is always on and cannot be shut off or that it is always off, and it cannot be turned on?
Why would that need to be changed? Are you having problems with your system?
AkoreJepade wrote:
So, does that mean that it is always on and cannot be shut off or that it is always off, and it cannot be turned on?
Actually, it means I have no idea. Most of the discussions I find on this topic are about managed switches.
The RBR50 has a pretty primitive 4-port Ethernet switch in it. (Doesn't support VLANs of any sort - port or tagged, for example.) That would lead to a suspicion that it does not support any managed features.
There was a discussion in 2020 regarding this issue and the RBR50:
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Spanning-Tree-problem-with-Orbi-RBR50/m-p/1910466
My guess is that it would be fairly simple experiment:
- Connect two ports of an unmanaged swtich to two Orbi LAN ports
- Connect one port of the swtich to a computer
- Set up something to watch the Ethernet traffic (BitMeter, for example: https://bitmeter.software.informer.com/3.6/ or Wireshark in promiscuous mode)
- Open a command window and issue an ARP command.
- If the network quickly goes crazy with broadcast packets, then there is no spanning tree support in the switch module.)
Either way, I have never seen anything that the user can do to control it.
