This post starts to answer STP Puzzle #1. As usual, check out the original post to make sense of this one. These puzzles give you some info about Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) in a particular [...]
This blog post is the first of what may be a whole new type. You can read all day about Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), and learn the theory, but that’s not enough. When you later try to apply STP [...]
I’ve named a new type of blog post: an STP Puzzle. The big idea is pretty simple. The problem tells you some (but not all) facts about Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) in a small switched network. [...]
Long story, but I had a reason today to try and think of a case in which a temporary loop might occur for which the listening state in STP was really necessary. The short answer? I couldn’t [...]