14 Spanning Tree Protocol
This chapter covers
- How Layer 2 loops lead to broadcast storms
- How Spanning Tree Protocol detects and prevents Layer 2 loops
- The various STP port roles, states, and timers
- Using PortFast to accelerate STP convergence
This chapter is about Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), a protocol that runs on all Cisco switches by default and solves a significant problem in LANs: Layer 2 loops that result in frames looping around the network indefinitely. STP is mentioned in exam topic 2.5: Identify basic operations of Rapid PVST+ Spanning Tree Protocol. Exam topic 2.5 specifically refers to the rapid version of the protocol, the topic of chapter 15. However, to understand Rapid STP, we first have to cover the original protocol, and ...
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