Identifying Designated Ports (continued) Note that the network segment between SwitchD and SwitchE does not contain a root port: Because t...

Identifying Designated Ports The third step in the STP convergence process is to identify designated ports. A single designated port is iden...

Identifying Root Ports (continued) Spanning tree protocols SwitchB has two paths to the Root Bridge: ·         A direct connection to Sw...

Identifying Root Ports  The second step in the STP convergence process is to identify root ports.  The root port of each switch has the l...

Electing an STP Root Bridge  The first step in the STP convergence process is electing a Root Bridge, which is the central reference p...

Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) was developed to prevent the broadcast storms caused by switching loops. STP w...

Spanning Tree Protocol  Switching Loops A Layer-2 switch belongs to only one broadcast domain, and will forward both broadcasts and mu...