Redundancy is an essential part of network design. Modern networks are expected to run 24/7/365. Even a short downtime can be disastrous for a business. Networks should be designed so that if one ...

We are only concerned with 802.1w for MOST use cases. MSTP (802.1s) is more useful for VERY LARGE networks. WHAT IS RAPID PER-VLAN SPANNING TREE PLUS? RSTP is not a time-based spanning tree algorithm ...

Those who had an opinion last week were split evenly: CCNA labs need either 2 or 3 switches, and CCNP labs need either 3 or 4. But why? We saw a few opinions floating around the blog last week, but ...

if you had two switches and you connected them together with an ethernet cable and then you connected another ethernet cable to those switches you would create a loop on the network this means an ...

This blog post is simply an index page to the recent blog postings about the pros and cons of using a two switch topology to experiment with and learn about Spanning Tree Protocol (STP). Part 1: The ...

On the network on which I work, the spanning tree protocol hello time is set to 2 seconds. After doing a few sniff sessions in some of the different vlans, i'm beginning to wonder if this setting is ...

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) primarily refers to a network protocol used to prevent loops in Ethernet networks. However, when mentioned alongside cryptocurrency, it usually pertains to network ...

Is the Spanning Tree Protocol a thing that is always operating in managed and unmanaged switches? (Even your basic SOHO Linksys or Netgear switch.) ...