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>I have a very low opinion of STP. That's not a very radical opinion in network engineering circles. No one ever liked it due to it's non forwarding links for
by drcross 8y ago
>I have a very low opinion of STP.
That's not a very radical opinion in network engineering circles. No one ever liked it due to it's non forwarding links for loop prevention but it was good enough to work until we discovered it's successor.
- oarsinsync 8y ago> until we discovered it's successor Which is?
- insaneirish 8y agoEnsuring all layer 2 domains are loop free by design and moving all redundancy to layer 3 and routing protocols.
- oarsinsync 8y ago> Ensuring all layer 2 domains are loop free by design Impossible, unfortunately, or we wouldn't need STP. > and moving all redundancy to layer 3 and routing protocols. Not always possible either, sadly. Works well for new deployments, can difficult to retrofit into older deployments depending on the scale and applications involved.