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 ...

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 ...

This blog post is simply an index page to the recent blog postings about the pros and cons of using a two switch topology to experiment with and learn about Spanning Tree Protocol (STP). Part 1: The ...

I've got a customer with a Dell switch (power connect 6248 I think) with 3 uplinks to my network. The uplinks are separate layer 3 links, each one being a separate IP block in a separate VLAN on my ...

Five things you should know about configuring a Cisco IOS switch Your email has been sent Once you're ready to make the jump to a more sophisticated switch, what do you need to know? Let's answer some ...