I am having an issue with using Mikrotik bridge’s with vlans on a port channel and running rstp. I know the issue but wondering if anyone knows what enterprise switches that stack or run mlag that will allow BPDU transparency / forwarding BPDU’s through them with spanning tree on or off ( very much prefer off )
to date I have tried dell with version os9,os10, Cisco nexus ( which will not let me do vlan remapping the way i want ) and now the latest FS. The issue is with FS and others is either they do not support bpdu transparency and or if they do they are looking for untagged bpdu’s only to foward. RSTP doesnt typically have any vlan tags associated with it technically not following the spanning tree protocol standard. However for my use case and the way i want to do this setup - when i use the bridge with vlans over a trunk port the BPDU’s get a vlan tag. For whatever reason the damn swtiches want to process the bpdu packet in cpu EVEN WHEN YOU HAVE SPANNING TREE OFF - its infuriating why they cannot just forward the damn packets like any other packet.
Mikrotik switches work great ( for this fucntion ) but they do not make a 100gig switch with enough ports for how i want to wire things up.