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Excellent information from both experts. Thank you both very much.
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Excellent information from both experts. Thank you both very much.

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Greetings. I'm relatively new to switching, so here goes.<br />
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We have 6 switches (Cisco 2060G). &nbsp; Two of them have the first 10 dedicated ports designated as VLAN2 for iSCSI purposes. Our iSCSI SAN is directly connected to some of them, while our iSCSI host is connected to others.<br />
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The remaining 4 switches have &quot;spanning tree mode pvst&quot; in the running/startup configuration, with the correct ports Trunked.<br />
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From what I'm learning, it's best to *not* use spanning tree on non-internetworked ports (i.e. PCs, printers, etc.), but to set them as:<br />
switchport mode access<br />
spanning-tree portfast<br />
spanning-tree bpduguard enable<br />
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Is that correct ? If so, do I need to designate the VLAN for each of those ports too, even though it's the default VLAN ?<br />
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Thanks.<br />
-Stephen
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Greetings. I'm relatively new to switching, so here goes.

We have 6 switches (Cisco 2060G).   Two of them have the first 10 dedicated ports designated as VLAN2 for iSCSI purposes. Our iSCSI SAN is directly connected to some of them, while our iSCSI host is connected to others.

The remaining 4 switches have "spanning tree mode pvst" in the running/startup configuration, with the correct ports Trunked.

From what I'm learning, it's best to *not* use spanning tree on non-internetworked ports (i.e. PCs, printers, etc.), but to set them as:
switchport mode access
spanning-tree portfast
spanning-tree bpduguard enable

Is that correct ? If so, do I need to designate the VLAN for each of those ports too, even though it's the default VLAN ?

Thanks.
-Stephen

Spanning Tree portfast/bpduguard vs. Spanning Tree PVST

Network design and methodology, also known as network architecture, is the design of a communication network. It is a framework for the specification of a network's physical components and their functional organization and configuration, its operational principles and procedures, as well as data formats used in its operation. In telecommunication, the specification of a network architecture may also include a detailed description of products and services delivered via a communications network, as well as detailed rate and billing structures under which services are compensated.

Network Architecture

A switch is a device that filters and forwards packets of data between LAN segments. Switches operate at the data link layer or the network layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model and therefore support any packet protocol. LANs that use switches to join segments are called switched LANs or, in the case of Ethernet networks, switched Ethernet LANs. A hub is a connection point for devices in a network. Hubs are commonly used to connect segments of a LAN. A hub contains multiple ports; when a packet arrives at one port, it is copied to the other ports so that all segments of the LAN can see all packets.

Switches / Hubs

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