Thinking back to when I had a lot of procurve switches, there is a separate "loop-protect" feature which may help protect against some network loops separately from spanning tree. We used this to protect against loops on mac-auth edge ports, which doesn't sound anything like your case, but...

Updated all my devices from 6.44 to 6.44.1 thru dude, no problems ipsec site-to-site run fine l2tp-ipsec roadwarrior dailin works fine Eddie Can you show your config? I am unable to get windows clients for l2tp ipsec to work... it's lost somewhere in phase1 or 2 For me, windows l2tp ipsec client al...