Switch looping solution needed

[Bristel1282]

Hi, is there any way I could link these 3 switches and make the ports green without causing a loop. (L2 only)

[Mark Elsen]

  - @Bristel1282     Switches are supposed to transfer packets between connected nodes.
                              Why do you see the need to have a 'forced loop' ?

   M.

[M02@rt37]

hello @Bristel1282 

Why do you want to create a loop ?

Depend of your final goal... you could customize STP regarding vlans and have a different L2 topology for each vlan ... depends of what you want !

[Joseph W. Doherty]

Possibly using multiple VLANs, as already noted by M02@rt37, they might do the trick.  As he described, different VLANs can have different L2 loop free topologies because of Cisco's PVST.

[David Ruess]

If you were to disable spanning tree on the orange link it should go green but you would in fact cause a loop.

-David