May 31, 2020July 30, 2020Routing and Switching Spanning-tree Communication – Bridge Protocol Data Units (BPDU) Because STP is involved in loop detection, many people refer to the catastrophic loops as “Spanning Tree loops.” This is […]
May 30, 2020July 30, 2020Routing and Switching Spanning Tree Basics – Part 3 Spanning-tree from the view point of DL-1 and DL2 The interface associated to lowest path cost is more preferred. The […]
May 30, 2020July 30, 2020Routing and Switching Spanning Tree Basics – Part 2 – The STP root In part one we looked at the simplest spanning tree decision that a switch can make when it has a […]
May 30, 2020July 30, 2020Routing and Switching Spanning Tree Basics – Part 1 Locating Root Ports After the switches have identified the root bridge, they must determine their root port (RP). The root […]