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jose_maria_gonz
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beacon probing + VGT or VST Mode problems!?

Hi there team,

Just out of curiosity, have you seen any issues with beacon probing when VGT or VST are on?

I have a customer that is having some network issues after turning beacon probing on and I wondering if that is the problem

Thanks a lot.

Rgds,

J.

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a_p_
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I'm no dedicated network guy, so this is more a guess. What type/model of physical switch is being used and how has spanning-tree been configured?

I read something about HP switches with rapid spanning-tree configured, where Beacons could lead to blocking the switch port if this is not explicitly configured as an edge port.

André

rickardnobel
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André Pett wrote:

I read something about HP switches with rapid spanning-tree configured, where Beacons could lead to blocking the switch port if this is not explicitly configured as an edge port.

Do you have some link for that? I have not heard of it and it "should" not happen, but always interesting to see different potential issues.

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a_p_
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I found the documentation. It's quite embarrassing, I mixed up beacons with BPDUs :smileyshocked:

André

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rickardnobel
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Not exactly the worst mix-up that has happened. Smiley Happy Thanks for getting back!

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jose_maria_gonz
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Hi Andre,

Apologies in advance for my late response.

They don´t have STP and the switche are from Dell (Dell PowerConnect)

The funny thing is that this customer had told me that they heard from someone at VMware that beacon probling could have some issues with VGT so I was wondering if anyone here have had such issues.

Thanking you in advance,

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