[AusNOG] Outage that costs Millions

[Lincoln Dale]

On 30/06/2010, at 12:25 PM, Craig Meyers wrote:

> When triggered, storm control can block spanning tree-BPDUs on some
> platforms, thereby creating a loop...

... and for that reason that its explicitly documented that if you are using storm control "do not configure traffic storm control on STP-protected ports that need to receive BPDUs.".

its an edge feature.  i.e. use it on edge ports that don't participate in STP. :)


cheers,

lincoln.