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mike.martone · 08-15-2022

Can I run PVST and VLAN Translation simultaneously? If so which switches support this? Thanks

mike.martone · 10-14-2021

We are trying to migrate a network made up of three Layer 2 Switches running RPVST+ to running MSTP. The network operates fine using PVST. However, when we configure for MSTP we see that one of the ports in the network is disabled. If our understa...

mike.martone · 03-17-2023

Thanks for your answer.PVST has a STP instantiation per VLAN, if you use 100 different VLANs you will run 100 instantiations of STP. MSTP gives you a certain number of STP instantiations per switch, each STP instantiation is called an MSTI. Switches...

mike.martone · 03-09-2023

Hi I wanted to clarify my question. I was not asking about MSTP frames. Let me explain better. Unlike Cisco's PVST which has a STP instantiation for each VLAN, MSTP provides a few STP instantiations called MSTI's. You can configure each MSTI(1:7) ...

mike.martone · 03-07-2023

How does MSTP handle untagged packets? If I setup one of the MSTI instances (MSTI0) to handle VLAN ID = 1 will it also include both packets tagged with a VLAN ID =1 as well as packets that do not have a VLAN tag? Thanks - mike

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