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Allied Telesis AT-S60 User Manual

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AT-S60 Management Software User’s Guide

Section II: Advanced Features

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Figure 85 illustrates the same two AT-8400 Series switches and the same
two virtual LANs. But in this example, the two switches are running MSTP
and the two VLANs have been assigned different spanning tree
instances. Now that they reside in different MSTIs, both links remain
active, enabling the VLANs to forward traffic over their respective direct
link.

Figure 85 MSTP Example of Two Spanning Tree Instances

AT-8400

SERIES

AT-8400

SERIES

Sales

VLAN in

MSTI 1

Production

VLAN in

MSTI 2

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Ports