Karl E. Jorgensen <k...@jorgensen.org.uk> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 09:56:24AM +0100, Florian Götz wrote:
>> It takes about an hour before the hosts get back to state "pingable" >> on the Debian machine. > a whole hour!? That is way too long for spanning tree to settle down. > So spanning tree/routing can probably be eliminated as suspects. I have personally seen a quite big STP setup take about 45 minutes to become stable again, after a remote link had been shutdown. This happend because the storm of BPDU packages overloaded the root-bridge causing a re-election of a new root-bridge which triggered another BPDU storm, overloading the new root-bridge, causing a re-election of a new-new root-bridge which triggered ... Reducing this ridiculously large network into more sensible chunks fixed this problem once and for all. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aadrh7v5v...@mids.svenhartge.de
