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  • 1.  Loop Protect on 6300 Switch Failed to Prevent a Loop.

    Posted May 30, 2025 09:24 AM

    Hello,

    I have a question about Loop Protection on the 6300 switch. Are there any scenarios where 'Loop Protect' could fail to prevent a loop on the edge ports? 

    We had an incident recently where a couple of ports started flapping due to a loop which had been accidently created.  Although the ports were configured with Loop Protect, the weren't automatically disabled when the loop occurred.

    Here is the port configuration:

    interface 1/1/41
        description DATA AND VOICE
        no shutdown
        no routing
        vlan trunk native 109
        vlan trunk allowed 109,308
        loop-protect
        port-access onboarding-method concurrent enable
        aaa authentication port-access client-limit 3
        aaa authentication port-access dot1x authenticator
            enable
        aaa authentication port-access mac-auth
            enable

    Many thanks in advance

    Burnside



  • 2.  RE: Loop Protect on 6300 Switch Failed to Prevent a Loop.

    Posted May 30, 2025 09:41 AM

    Hi, maybe I'm wrong but your configuration probably lacks of:

    loop-protect vlan 109,308

    and perform a:

    show loop-protect 1/1/41 (as example)

    Would be nice then to see, after adding the above configuration on all involved edge-interfaces, what is going to happen if you manually create (on purpose) a loop between two of them.




  • 3.  RE: Loop Protect on 6300 Switch Failed to Prevent a Loop.

    Posted May 30, 2025 10:10 AM

    Thank you for getting back to me so quickly.

    I will try this out later today when it's quieter and create the loop again. If it does shut down the ports as we hope that'll be fantastic. I will get back to you as soon as I've tried it.

    Many thanks

    Burnside