RPVSTP has a "distance" limitation of 7 hops. Is this a hop limitation of the total distance from the root bridge, or a limitation of 7 hops from any switch to any other switch?
This is the layout that we're planning, to work around some distance and physical limitations of the site. The MDF-Core switch is configure as the root bridge for all VLANs. By connecting things around in a loop, we're relying on PV-RSTP to give us redundancy in physical path. Unfortunately these are all layer-2 switches, so we can't rely on routing.
The right-hand loop is 7 hops to get back to the root bridge. However if we count it as going all the way to the farthest switch on the left side, that could be up to 10 hops.
Is this layout going to give us problems, or will RSTP still be doing its thing properly?
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