STP
CCNA 640-802 Bible – Configure,Verify and Troubleshoot RSTP
Tuesday, July 14th, 20091. A network administrator needs to force a high-performance switch that is located in the MDF to become the root bridge for a redundant path switched network. What can be done to ensure that this switch assumes the role as root bridge?
A: Establish a direct link from the switch to all other switches in the [...]
CCNA 640-802 Bible – Describe Enhanced Switching Technologies
Friday, July 10th, 20091. A network administrator needs to force a high-performance switch that is located in the MDF to become the root bridge for a redundant path switched network. What can be done to ensure that this switch assumes the role as root bridge?
A: Establish a direct link from the switch to all other switches in [...]
CCNA 640-802 Bible – Basic Operations On Cisco Switch
Tuesday, July 7th, 20091. Which two values are used by Spanning Tree Protocol to elect a root bridge? (Choose two.)
A:amount of RAM
B:bridge priority
C:IOS version
D:IP address
E:MAC address
Tags: 640-802 Bible, STP, Switching, VLAN
Spanning-Tree Protocol (STP) – II
Monday, April 13th, 2009STP States
To participate in STP, each port of a switch must progress through several states. A port begins in a Disabled state moving through several passive states and finally into an active state if allowed to forward traffic. The STP port states are: Disabled, Blocking, Listening, Learning, and Forwarding.
. Ports that are administratively shut down [...]
Spanning-Tree Protocol (STP) – I
Monday, April 13th, 2009A Layer 2 switch, which functions as a transparent bridge, offers no additional links for redundancy purposes. To add redundancy, a second switch must be added. Now two switches offer the transparent bridging function in parallel. LAN designs with redundant links introduce the possibility that frames might loop around the network forever. These looping frames [...]