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 ...

The Spanning Tree Protocol, sometimes just referred to as Spanning Tree, is the Waze or MapQuest of modern Ethernet networks, directing traffic along the most efficient route based on real-time ...

The use of switched network environments to forward digital data transmission packets known as frames is a very basic concept in networking and telecommunications. Network switches work to direct ...

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 ...