Stubby Post - UplinkFast
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I’ve got a few switches daisy chained together with single links and have enabled UplinkFast on them. This switch is not the root bridge; F0/24 is the root port and F0/23 is a blocked alternate …
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Stubby Post - Path Cost of EtherChannels
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I was doing some STP labs tonight and found something that caught me off guard a bit. I had been meddling with some EtherChannels between a pair of 3750s earlier today, and I forgot to reset the …
SWITCH – STP Exercise #1 Solution
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Did you guys have any trouble with the solution to the STP exercise? Let’s work through it and see what happens. I got a few responses to the solution, and everyone seems to get the same answer, …
SWITCH - STP Exercise #1
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Here’s an STP exercise for you. Given the bridge priorities, MAC addresses, and interface types in the diagram, calculate the root bridge, root ports, designated ports, and blocked ports. You …
BCMSN Notes -- STP States
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I’ve decided to take on the CCNP certification, so I’m going to wind up with a few posts will be more my own notes than anything. :) A switch port on a 2960 comes up with a default …
Mixed-platform LANs and Spanning Tree
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We just an HP C-class blade chassis which included two GbE2c network modules. These modules are Nortel switches running AlteonOS that connect the blades to the rest of your network. When I turned …