Allied Telesis AT-S63 User Manual

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Chapter 22: Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol

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Section V: Spanning Tree Protocols

Another approach is to group those VLANs that need to span regions into
the same MSTI. Those VLANs that do not span regions can be assigned
to other MSTIs.

Here is an example. Assume that you have two regions that contain the
following VLANS:

Region 1 VLANs

Region 2 VLANs

Sales

Hardware Engineering

Presales

Software Engineering

Marketing

Technical Support

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Product Management

Technical Support

CAD Development

Product Management

Accounting

Project Management
Accounting

The two regions share three VLANs: Technical Support, Product
Management, and Accounting. You could group those VLANs into the
same MSTI in each region. For instance, for Region 1 you might group the
three VLANs in MSTI 11 and in Region 2 you could group them into MSTI
6. After they are grouped, you can connect the VLANs across the regions
using a link of tagged ports.

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