Spanning-Tree Protocol

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*;Blocking: Recevies BDPUs only
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;Blocking: Recevies BDPUs only
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*;Listenning: Building an Active topology
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;Listenning: Building an Active topology
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*;Learning: Building a bridging table
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;Learning: Building a bridging table
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*;Fowarding: Sending and Receiving Data
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;Fowarding: Sending and Receiving Data
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*;Disabled: Administratively down.
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;Disabled: Administratively down.
==Selecting Root bridge==
==Selecting Root bridge==

Current revision as of 00:36, 18 October 2006

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
STP is a bridged protocol that utilizes the spanning tree alogarithm, enabling a learning bridge to dynamically work around loops in a network topology by creating a spanning tree
Spanning-Tree port States
Blocking
Recevies BDPUs only
Listenning
Building an Active topology
Learning
Building a bridging table
Fowarding
Sending and Receiving Data
Disabled
Administratively down.

[edit] Selecting Root bridge

By default the Root bridge is the one with the lowest MAC address but this can be manupulated by the administrator by changing the Root Priority. The command to used is

Switch#config term
Switch(config)# spanning-tree vlan1 priority <0-65, 535> | default <32,768>
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