Can anyone explain why ETC recommends having Spanning Tree turned off on the network? Besides a longer network convergence time, I dont see the drawback and the advantage of a self-healing network that can mitigate switching loops seems huge. I am involved in a show that had a relatively large network and rig (ok its is a really big rig) and our show went down once because someone plugged in one of the redundant uplink runs into a switch and a massive loop was formed eventually taking the network down and killing the show. Granted, it was totally a human error but if Spanning Tree was enabled on the network, it would have simply shut the port down and we would not have lost our show. Just curious if anyone can explain why the recommendation.
