We have redundant links in our network topology to handle switch failures, reboots, general L2 death etc. Of course to prevent loops and to reconfigure the topology we use RSTP. However, on any port that is in the Alternate state or in Designated state connected on the other side to a Backup or Alternate port, NPM logs 12 kajillion discards where as the switch shows things as fine. Of course by design RSTP has to set ports to discard at places. Is there some way to make NPM more intelligent so that it doesn't alert on the eleventy jillion discards a port in the Alternate state creates? Aka, can NPM be RSTP aware and only show us real discard problems?
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