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Spanning regions without blocking – Allied Telesis AT-GS950/8 User Manual

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Appendix A: MSTP Overview

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Here is an example. Assume that you have two regions that contain the
following VLANS:

Region 1 VLANs

Region 2 VLANs

Accounting

Accounting

Sales

Sales

Pre-Sales

Pre-Sales

Marketing

Technical Support

Product Management

Software Engineering

Project Management

Hardware Engineering

The 2 regions share 3 VLANs: Accounting, Sales, and Presales. You can
group these 3 VLANs into the same MSTI in each region. For instance, for
Region 1 you might group the 3 VLANs in MSTI 12, and in Region 2 you could
group them into MSTI 16. After they are grouped, you can connect the VLANs
across the regions using a link of untagged/tagged ports as shown in Figure
160.

Figure 160. Spanning Regions without Blocking

Switch A

Switch B

Region 1

Region 2

Port 6
MSTI 12
VLAN (untagged) port: Accounting
VLAN (tagged port): Sales
VLAN (tagged port): Pre-Sales

Port 1
MSTI 16
VLAN (untagged) port: Accounting
VLAN (tagged port): Sales
VLAN (tagged port): Pre-Sales