The short answer is "unless you really have something against it, it costs nothing to enable it." I would make the case that in a Mikrotik environment, it is actually better to have something rather than "none": during a recent troubleshooting (LLDP), someone pointed that protocol "none" means that all L2 broadcast/multicast are sent on all ports. This includes STP, LLDP, CDP, plus a few proprietary protocols. Quite noisy.
Now, STP, RSTP or MSTP - STP is older and slower, out of the picture. If you don't need to complexity of multiple spanning-tree instances, for example you don't need to have different roots for different VLAN groups, then RSTP is your best friend: it is quite fast and converges quickly.
Regardless of which STP flavour:
Now, STP, RSTP or MSTP - STP is older and slower, out of the picture. If you don't need to complexity of multiple spanning-tree instances, for example you don't need to have different roots for different VLAN groups, then RSTP is your best friend: it is quite fast and converges quickly.
Regardless of which STP flavour:
- Set the bridge priorities! Your RB4011 seems a good candidate to have a prio of 0 and be the root, with the hex Poe connecting to the powerbox having a prio of 4096 to be the backup root.
- Define the edge ports. That will speed up things quite a bit.
Statistics: Posted by vingjfg — Mon Jan 29, 2024 10:13 pm