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soda009191 · 04-29-2011

I have a question regarding Spanning-tree. We have several office locations that are connection through a private VPN. I reside in our main office and we are running Spanning tree on our network here. The question is as follows in my location, let's ...

soda009191 · 04-30-2011

So we are all in agreement that there are no possible issues with Spanning tree or VTP domains crossing the VPN WAN since they are layer 2? On a side note we connected one of our offices with a wireless bridge and extended the VLANs over to the site ...

soda009191 · 04-29-2011

I was doing some thinking about the Spanning-tree. Since it is a layer 2 protocol it is not routable. Is it best practice to have the different numbered VLANs as mentioned?

soda009191 · 04-29-2011

The switches will not be part of the same VTP domain so I will not be extending the current VLANs. My question was if I had the same VLANs at multiple location will spanning tree pick a root switch at a branch office if it has a lower priorty.

soda009191 · 04-29-2011

I added a drawing . Every site is connected to a private VPN with a managed router. The layer 3 switch at each site contains all the VLANs.

soda009191 · 04-29-2011

My concern is that Spanning creates a central focal point in the network. And I thought there might be a possibilty that it may choose a switch at a branch office that is using the same VLANs as the focal point.

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