Recently a colleque of mine noticed something strange in the STP configuration from a couple of HP ProCurve switches. He had a network, which was configured by another party, with switches running MST en RSTP mode spanning-tree. He noticed a lot of topology changes in the configuration, but couldn’t find out where they were coming from.

Yesterday I came in another native HP ProCurve environment with two 5412zl switches en multiple 3500yl switches. All the switches have MST configured and I noticed the same strange behavior. One switch had an uptime from 29 days, but had more than 700.000 topology changes. The last change was 11 hours ago. I checked the logging and noticed that ports going up and down, aren’t counted as a topology change. I have looked at different forums, but cannot find a reason for the topology changes.

My colleque and I will try to investigate the problem further, when we have some time left ;-). I hope we can come back on this issue, but maybe some of you already noticed the same problems and know the cause of it….

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René Jorissen

Co-owner and Solution Specialist at 4IP Solutions

René Jorissen works as Solution Specialist for 4IP in the Netherlands. Network Infrastructures are the primary focus. René works with equipment of multiple vendors, like Cisco, Aruba Networks, FortiNet, HP Networking, Juniper Networks, RSA SecurID, AeroHive, Microsoft and many more. René is Aruba Certified Edge Expert (ACEX #26), Aruba Certified Mobility Expert (ACMX #438), Aruba Certified ClearPass Expert (ACCX #725), Aruba Certified Design Expert (ACDX #760), CCNP R&S, FCNSP and Certified Ethical Hacker (CEF) certified. You can follow René on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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