Hey!
In our network some guys recently plugged in the cable of a network jack in an unmanaged 8-port Netgear switch.
So Basically there is an existing connection between Port 3 of the HP J9728A 2920-48G Switch and the unmanaged 8-port Netgear switch right now.
On our HP Switch, STP is enabled and i guess thats why i got notifications at the Switch Web Client like "port 3 is Blocked by STP"
So right now it is not possible to reach the hardware via icmp or something else which is connected to the unmanaged switch, whereas i am located in the conventionally network behind the HP Switch.
I guess that this behaviour should be completely right as it acts right now.
So my question is technically:
Why does this specific connection between the managed HP Switch and the unmanaged Netgear switch not work?
Why i am not able to reach the respective hardware behind the unmanaged switch and what should i do to solve the problem? ( maybe just use another HP managed switch instead of the rubbish netgear switch, which is actually not possible right now) or is it just a software configuration issue?
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