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spantree question for HP Procurve

I have about 50 HP procurve switches on my network, no cisco. The core is already set as root spantree. Is there a best practice for applying spantree for the other 49 switches. Do you start from Core out or furthest to core back in?

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I only have spantree enabled on the core but enabled on the other 49 hp switches. So I want to go back and enabled them but do nit know where to enabled first, closest to core switch or furthest first. When I enabled stp, how ling will users be down? Thanx
Default convergence time for STP is up to 50 seconds. 30 seconds for listening and learning phases + up to 20 seconds for max age timer. I believe direction does not really matter, but I guess users would be less affected if you go from edge of network in core direction (although from core to edge of network sounds more logical).
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Also little suggestion - set priorities properly and pick Edge/Nonedge ports. Otherwise you'll see tons of TCNs and possible service disruptions.
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There was also nice article on the HP's website which of course doesn't work after company's split.
do you have command for edge/nonedge port setting?
I already gave you those in the first post here, just did not explain why. :)