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HI Daniel, Generally we do not recommend turning off or disabling STP on all ports. The safest smartport to use would be Multiport Automation Device. This smartport tells STP not to worry about this port when re-learning occurs but still provides loop prevention in the event of a loop. MSTP and ...

Hello Daniel, This sound like spanning-tree is kicking in and trying to re-learn the network topology. As GRO suggested, check with the switch to see if there are any alarms or alerts. The overall recommendation I would have is to be sure you are configuring smartports correctly on every port. ...

Alex, By default the switch is configured to look for BPDU (Bridge Protocol Data Units) frames on its access ports. When a port is explicitly set to access, we are saying there WILL NOT be another switch capable of sending BPDUs on that port. In your situation, both the LMS8 and BMS10CGP are capable ...

Kristopher, The Stratix 5950 Industrial Firewall provides Deep Packet Inspection of Rockwell Automation specific enhancements to the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP). Cisco generally would be more advantageous if you were looking for higher port density, and hardware resiliency features such as ...

Kristopher, To build on what Kelvin has provided, the Converged Plantwide Ethernet has specific design guides focused on corporate & plant-network segmentation use cases. Depending on your application needs, servers may exist on the corporate network and services are used to 'proxy' the needed data ...