I'm setting up some new equipment and I'm wondering about a couple details related to spanning tree. This is the first time I'm doing anything but the simplest setup with a switch. 1x Dell iSCSI ...

Dealt with quite a little clusterf*** today with TimeWarner Cable on their "business" side. We brought up an NNI with them on Friday and I had someone at a customer site trying to turn up our first ...

Our project intends to evaluate and compare the performances of STP and RSTP on Cisco switches supported by OPNET. We were planning to do the comparison of STP with more other types such as Multiple ...

I am amazed by the number of networks that I encounter that do not have optimal spanning tree configurations. I first read Radia Perlman’s book “Interconnections” back in 1994. I am amazed that 15 ...

Ethernet devices running the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) have been implemented in networks since the early 1990s. Many organizations take STP for granted and do not configure it per industry best ...