yes, in reading that article, so if I understand correctly, the implied best practice would be to have the mx with "vlans enabled" and when connecting to an MS Layer 3 switch stack : Make sure STP is enabled on the downstream switching infrastructure, as a properly-configured HA topology will introduce a loop on the network. so the STP blocked ports for the alt physical path from MS stack to MX, is desirable, is best practice, is by design. is this a fair/correct statement ? Hopefully MX will support Port-channel (link aggregation) in the future which will eliminate the STP port blocking design. regards, Jason
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