EXP Computer S200 manual Spanning Tree Protocol Entity Stpe

Spanning Tree Protocol Entity (STPE)

Tips on Spanning Determining a spanning tree in order to set up a manual tree may seem more labor

Treeintensive than letting the bridge network determine the tree by algorithm. However, even with automatic spanning tree determination, you must study the possible arrangements of resulting trees and assign the bridge priorities accordingly to avoid unreasonable performance due to long data paths.

In fact, this responsibility points out a major disadvantage of using a bridge network in a mesh topology instead of a router. The spanning tree protocol does not allow the bridges to determine optimal paths and to route frames along them. Trying to handle this task manually by configuring bridges and bridge links quickly becomes unwieldy as soon as additional loops are possible and one tries to maintain optimal traffic routing when faced with a variety of possible link or bridge failures.

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