After the experience with a wedged router interface (see prior post: Cisco Router Interface Wedged ), several of us at Netcraftsmen were discussing etherchannel load balancing and what to recommend to customers and how to check the setting in network equipment. James Ventre made a very good point for...

While doing some other research recently, I ran across the Bridge Assurance feature in Cisco gear, which was new to me. Cisco has been working on ways to avoid STP melt-down and Bridge Assurance is another tool to help network administrators keep networks running. STP problems occur when forwarding loops...