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Configuration of RSTP to stop my network frequently Dying.
We have severe problems, I believe with someone in the office crossing network ports, and causing a loop somewhere. This has happened a few times now, and on most occasions, after a few hours Ive man...
Thanks again for this update. I will be applying the priority changes this evening after everyone has gone home.
Id like to mention what would be my ideal scenario. If a user were to connect both ends of a cat5 cable to floor ports, thus causing a loop, I would like the switch to disable that port, and let the user come and find me, or indeed let me spot this in our monitoring station when that switch sends a trap.
Previous incidents of this nature have been down to this very act, but Ive only actually traced it on a handful of occasions. we patch the FS728TP ports to odd numbered ports, and the GS724T ports to Even numbered. That way I can tell users to use odd for their phones, and even for network connections. Hasnt really helped though :-)
if you have an idea how I can make the switches disable the ports, then I think Ill have all the tools I need to find the [expletive removed] that is costing us so much downtime.
Thanks again
Well in the statement below, if users connects port x to port y on the wall where port x is connected to FS728TP and port y is connected to GS724T which are also connected to rest of network via uplink, that problem can be easily solved as port should go into blocking state if you mark the port cost of uplink port to be lower and mark the 2 user ports as edge ports.
If you are trying to protect the network from unidirection issues where example a user connect wall port to a unmanaged switch and loops that switch, that will be different problem all together.
PM me the configuration of your FS728TP and GS724T as text configuration files and I can take a look and make suggestion.
Hello again, Ive added the additional switch configs to the link I sent you privately ...
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