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Thats an open ended question my friend.Do you a have a Router, or MSFC Card?As you need at least some routing capabilities to communicate between VLANS....There are a few topologies you can create... the best thing is to tell us what you have, and ho...
Currently.There is no loop in the topology, as far as that switch is concerned.The loop is further "downstream".It's not like the Switch see's it's own BPDU comming in on another port, so it can't move the port to blocking state.Instead it is recievi...
"how to avoid"?Well your using hubs, so there is not really a great deal you can do.Short of swapping the hubs to switches your kinda at a loss really. You could lock down the Core switch port to only the MAC Addresses of the PC's connected... (a Lon...
Yes, from the original post it's not made clear...It seems a little bit of an odd design too.Why not just plug the hubs into the core??We'll have to await clarification I think.Cheers.Matt.PS. It didn't drop into blocking state, as there was no switc...
Well think about it for a second.The Core Switch will run an STP Instance... (possibly more than one if using PVST.The Core will see any traffic it has sent over the link.. (Not good)Hubs DO NOT run STP. Infact Hubs don't RUN anything, they are repea...
