July 2024
Beginner
608 pages
18h 25m
English
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In this chapter, we will continue to look at Spanning Tree Protocol (STP). There’s a reason STP is enabled by default on almost any vendor’s switches: Layer 2 loops are disastrous for a LAN. However, there are some downsides to the original STP as defined by IEEE 802.1D, the main one being speed; it can take up to 50 seconds to converge and reach a new, stable state after a change in the LAN. When STP ...
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