We’ve recently purchased 6 routerboard 532 units, which are great btw!
I’m trying to setup a failover connection, and I’m not having much luck.
Does failover STP only work with a physical cat5 connection maybe?
Here’s how I have things setup for testing purposes …
I have 3 routerboards, named A, B and C.
All ports on all 3 routers are bridged with STP turned on.
A is connected to B with a crossover, B to C with a crossover,
but C is connected to A with a wireless link (AP+SU setup)
My test laptop is hooked up to board A, while another test unit
is connected to board C. I can ping C from A when the link between
A and B, or B and C is broken, but once I close the loop I get a
loopback and C goes down, and I see lots of loopback activity.
For some reason STP seems not to kick in and all ports stay active.
- This test works when the wireless link is replaced with cat5 connection.
Any ideas, advice or help?
Thank You,
Martin