I have four Switches that are interconnected with each other, witch form a loop as shown in this network diagram
The switch 1
is the root bridge and is connected to the primary edge router. The switch 2
is the failover root bridge and is connected to the secondary edge router. The two switches are interconnected with a 10 Gb/s module. The connections to the other switches are all 1 Gb/s (either with SFP and fibre or ethernet cable).
The priorities are set as shown in the diagram.
Now I'd like that path between switch 3
and switch 4
to be blocked. So I'd like to know if with my current configuration STP blocks the path between switch 3
and switch 4
automatically, as it's the path with the heighest cost leading to the root bridge or should I configure it specifically? How would one do such a configuration?
The switches are configured with mstp.