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 ...

I am amazed by the number of networks that I encounter that do not have optimal spanning tree configurations. I first read Radia Perlman’s book “Interconnections” back in 1994. I am amazed that 15 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You need at least a pair of “switches”, and you really need more. But there are multiple options for what you buy to do switching with for the lab, and those choices impact the topology you end up ...

Task 1 Enable and configure VTP on the switches illustrated in the topology as follows: All switches should reside in VTP domain ‘SWITCH’ All switches should run VTP version 2 All switches should ...

Other switch global Spanning-Tree options supported by Cisco IOS (e.g. forward-time, hello-time, max-age, root primary/secondary diameter) are not in scope. Also interface-related Spanning-Tree ...