Yes, all my vlans are listed as active.

like i said if there is no active port forwarding in a vlan, then no stp instance for that vlan when you look at stp info on the switch you will only see stp info for vlans with active port forwarding traffic.

Also you can have a max 128 instance, you have more vlans that max instance on the switch. do you need all vlans?

marcin.piesio wrote:
Yes, all my vlans are listed as active.

Marcin

Unless you are daisy chaining switches where a vlan is needed on a remote switch so you have to include it on the intermediate switch or unless you are running trunks on all ports with devices that need access to all 244 vlans then i can't see why each switch needs to have all 244 vlans active. Like i said with 48 ports per switch how can you need 244 vlans per switch.

Jon

3560 ports are trunk connected to coax ip switches which are connected to 12 devices.

Every device have to be on seperate vlan. We will have 20 of of those coax switches = 21*12=252 and we will "only" use 244.

So not all the switches need access to all 244 vlans, but this eventually connects to the core which should be a root bridge for all vlans and it cannot because of 128 limitation.

Is my MSTP design below makes sense ?

From what i understand you specify region for a pool of vlans ?

According to Jon's suggestion, you might have to use MSTP.

Francisco.

Dont ask me why but yes we need all 244.

There are no loops on the network, my only concern is that port channel is already redundant link so the question is now can portchannel creating switching loops ?

thanks for your quick response

Marcin

marcin.piesio wrote:
Dont ask me why but yes we need all 244.
There are no loops on the network, my only concern is that port channel is already redundant link so the question is now can portchannel creating switching loops ?
thanks for your quick response
Marcin

Marcin

If you really do need all 244 vlans on each switch and i can;t see why you would then i would suggest looking at MSTP as per previous thread so that you can run STP on all vlans.

Portchannel could in theory create a loop, that is why STP should be run on all vlans. It is your L2 failsafe.

Jon

This URL discusses some MSTP design-related questions http://blog.ine.com/2010/02/22/understanding-mstp/

Hi there,

can some please help me with my mst config:

sw1(running rapid-pvst) directly connected to sw2(running mst)

sw1 is root for vlans range 1-100  (about 30 vlans in range)

sw2 is root for vlans 101-350

sw2

mst config

instance 0 vlan 7,19,88,101-350

instance 1 vlan 1-6,8-18,20-87,89-4094

trunk between sw1 and sw2 config

switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
switchport mode trunk

when enabling trunk i receive msg

%SPANTREE-2-PVSTSIM_FAIL: Blocking root port Gi0/24: Inconsitent inferior PVST BPDU received on VLAN 4, claiming root 24580:0022.55bb.1500

and sh spann output

sh spanning-tree

MST0
  Spanning tree enabled protocol mstp
  Root ID    Priority    24577
             Address     0022.55bb.1500
             Cost        20008
             Port        24 (GigabitEthernet0/24)
             Hello Time   2 sec  Max Age 20 sec  Forward Delay 15 sec

  Bridge ID  Priority    32768  (priority 32768 sys-id-ext 0)
             Address     ec44.7643.4980
             Hello Time   2 sec  Max Age 20 sec  Forward Delay 15 sec

Interface           Role Sts Cost      Prio.Nbr Type
------------------- ---- --- --------- -------- --------------------------------
Gi0/24              Root BKN*20000     128.24   P2p Bound(PVST) *PVST_Inc

MST2
  Spanning tree enabled protocol mstp
  Root ID    Priority    32770
             Address     ec44.7643.4980
             This bridge is the root
             Hello Time   2 sec  Max Age 20 sec  Forward Delay 15 sec

  Bridge ID  Priority    32770  (priority 32768 sys-id-ext 2)
             Address     ec44.7643.4980
             Hello Time   2 sec  Max Age 20 sec  Forward Delay 15 sec

Interface           Role Sts Cost      Prio.Nbr Type
------------------- ---- --- --------- -------- --------------------------------
Gi0/24              Mstr BKN*20000     128.24   P2p Bound(PVST) *PVST_Inc

when i unplug and plug the cable again it doesn't block the link and it works. sh spann output below

sh spanning-tree

MST0
  Spanning tree enabled protocol mstp
  Root ID    Priority    24577
             Address     0022.55bb.1500
             Cost        20008
             Port        24 (GigabitEthernet0/24)
             Hello Time   2 sec  Max Age 20 sec  Forward Delay 15 sec

  Bridge ID  Priority    32768  (priority 32768 sys-id-ext 0)
             Address     ec44.7643.4980
             Hello Time   2 sec  Max Age 20 sec  Forward Delay 15 sec

Interface           Role Sts Cost      Prio.Nbr Type
------------------- ---- --- --------- -------- --------------------------------
Gi0/24              Root FWD 20000     128.24   P2p Bound(PVST) *PVST_Inc

MST2
  Spanning tree enabled protocol mstp
  Root ID    Priority    32770
             Address     ec44.7643.4980
             This bridge is the root
             Hello Time   2 sec  Max Age 20 sec  Forward Delay 15 sec

  Bridge ID  Priority    32770  (priority 32768 sys-id-ext 2)
             Address     ec44.7643.4980
             Hello Time   2 sec  Max Age 20 sec  Forward Delay 15 sec

Interface           Role Sts Cost      Prio.Nbr Type
------------------- ---- --- --------- -------- --------------------------------
Gi0/24              Mstr BKN*20000     128.24   P2p Bound(PVST) *PVST_Inc

can you please explain why does it fail on first attempt ?

i want to limit my trunk to vlan only vlans 7,19 and 88 by applying below config

switchport trunk allowed vlan 7,19,88 when enable link mst blocks it.

is there anything i am missing in my config to make it work ?

thanks for your response