In the previous post I described the problem STP solves, which is network loops and the devastation they can cause to a network. This post will be fairly brief as I’m going to go over the different iterations of STP over the years, both open standards and Cisco proprietary implementations. Below are the open standardsContinue reading “What is Spanning Tree Protocol (Part 2)”
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What is Spanning Tree Protocol (Part1)
What is Spanning Tree Protocol and how does it work? In this first part I’ll go over what Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) is and why we need it. I’ll start with the last part first. To describe what STP is we have to discuss the problem for which it was created to solve.
Matt Burks 