Spanning-tree setup with incompatible switches
- by wfaulk
I have a set of eight HP ProCurve 2910al-48G Ethernet switches at my datacenter that are set up in a star topology with no physical loops. I want to partially mesh the switches for redundancy and manage the loops with a spanning-tree protocol.
However, our connection to the datacenter is provided by two uplinks, each to a Cisco 3750. The…