Smarttrunk And Port Connections - Cabletron Systems SmartSwitch 6000 User Manual

Introduction
Users
SmartSwitch 6000
Smart -216
MIM
Group B on the
SmartSwitch 6000 Module

SmartTrunk and Port Connections

The SmartTrunk application dynamically determines network loops and is used
concurrently with the Spanning Tree protocol. The SmartTrunk application only
acknowledges its neighboring switches. If a user goes through several switch
hops, then loops back to the first switch hop (creating a loop), a common
connection between two switches (any two) will go into a Blocking state (see
Figure 1-2).
1-4
Chassis
9C106
SmartSwitch 2200
PWR
C P U
2E43-27
COM
Users
Figure 1-1. Chassis with Multiple SmartTrunk Groups Enabled
SmartSwitch 9000
Chassis
9H422-12
Both Groups
on the
SmartSwitch 9000
Group A on the
SmartSwitch 2200
Users
Group A
Group B