Tag:   Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)

As a senior network administrator, you receive complaints from server team that yesterday there were multiple short network cuts that impacted some very sensitive applications running in the data center. You investigate and find out that one of the level 1 network engineers performed some network changes. What went wrong?

This post represents the solution and explanation for quiz-1.
It shows one of the common problems, solutions and recommendations when implementing MSTP.

This is my first quiz and I chose an MSTP misconfiguration scenario that could be easily overlooked on the first encounter.
A fiber got cut revealed some hidden MSTP implementation problems. It was enough for one link to go down and the connectivity got impacted in a network that was supposed to be redundant. Read along and try to spot the problem.