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Nejc Škoberne wrote:
> Any ideas how to prevent such situations in the future? (I would like
> to do it on the server side, not on the "user side".)
Get a switch that runs Spanning Tree Protocol. I don't think there's
much you can do on the server about a problem in the switch.