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Gettign Issue Related Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) Loops

jamessmilleree
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Hi all,

Can anyone please explain how to identifying and resolving STP loops or broadcast storms, currently we are analyzing the spanning tree topology, blocking/unblocking ports, and preventing future loops. But getting exact solution will help us find the right path.

 

Any solution will be highly appreciated.

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balaji.bandi
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STP Loops - Make sure there is no Layer 2 Loops in the network (even they are, you need to handle them right way so the STP working as expected)

folloow below troubleshoot guide to understand the issue and fix :

https://community.cisco.com/t5/networking-knowledge-base/stp-loop-troubleshooting/ta-p/3153444

broadcast storms - This depends how you Layer 2 Domain and kind of IP address used in the Layer 2 network /24 commly used, if you used bigger network that will have more issues. (so make it small broadcast domain to easily handle the issue)

you can also configure port-level broadcast strom control

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Joseph W. Doherty
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Could you clarify what you consider a "STP loop" to be?  The reason I ask, the purpose of STP is to preclude L2 loops, so if you have a L2 loop, with a correctly configured STP running, something is "broken".

Regarding "broadcast storms", to identify such, you need to analyze the amount of broadcast traffic, then determine what you consider a "storm" level of broadcasts.  You also may need to determine whether the broadcasts are legitimate or not.  Once you have all that information, you can determine what your next course of action might and/or should be.  (Understand, any level of broadcasts can be totally legitimate, and if so, but the load is too much for your L2 domain, you'll likely need to break L2 domain into smaller L2 domains.  [BTW, this is often the reason why we don't have huge L2 domains, even with switches, as they begin to break down due to broadcast traffic.  {Also BTW, this is a similar problem even with unicast on large shared media, e.g. hub, L2 domains.}])

Stp prevent loop automatically.

What you need to do is tune which port will stp block that all.