[AusNOG] Outage that costs Millions

Lincoln Dale ltd at cisco.com
Wed Jun 30 11:46:49 EST 2010


On 30/06/2010, at 10:43 AM, Daniel Hood wrote:
> The issue the outage was facing was a Spanning Tree Loop that knocked over all of the

it is the _absence_ of Spanning Tree that means that a network cannot _recover_ from someone causing a loop.
common misconception is that Spanning Tree causes loops.  that is incorrect at best.


cheers,

lincoln.




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