When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Spanning tree protocol is an essential function of Ethernet networks, and it provides several ...

Is the Spanning Tree Protocol a thing that is always operating in managed and unmanaged switches? (Even your basic SOHO Linksys or Netgear switch.) ...

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 ...

As computer networks get bigger, it becomes increasingly hard to keep track of the flow of data over this network. How do you route data, making sure that the data is spread to all parts of the ...

If you are considering a network design that has a ring topology and you desire to use Ethernet, then you should first be aware of the issues of using Ethernet with a ring architecture. Ethernet is ...

This memo defines an SMIv2 MIB module for managing the Rapid Spanning Tree capability defined by the IEEE P802.1t and P802.1w amendments to IEEE Std 802.1D-1998 for bridging between Local Area Network ...

Radia Perlman - engineer, author, inventor and now director of network and security at Intel, has arrived in Australia to speak at the linux.conf.au conference in Canberra. Perlman is most renowned ...

Thanks for STP. but one thing pops in my mind how does it stops a network loop in this scenario. A frame (source pc0/1, destination pc2/1) just entered my Switch(SW1) and then router(R1) then ...

As computer networks get bigger, it becomes increasingly hard to keep track of the flow of data over this network. How do you route data, making sure that the data is spread to all parts of the ...