Total STP for engineers

Description

The Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) dates from 1985.
This course explores in depth how the protocol works
and the implications this has on network performance.
We also study STP variants including 802.1w (RSTP)
and 802.1s (MSTP).

What will you learn

Total STP training course details

Technical network staff.

Definitive Ethernet switching for engineers

1 day

What is 802.1D, what is STP, resilience, broadcast
storms, forwarding and blocking, single path.

Hands on Impact of broadcast storms, enabling
disabling STP.

STP frames, BPDUs, root bridge election, blocked
ports, root ports, designated ports. STP path
costs.
Hands on Analysing STP, troubleshooting
implications.

Hello timer, Forward delay timer, max age timer,
Topology Change Notification (TCN) BPDU.

Hands on STP convergence.

Bridge ID, Bridge priority, port priority, 30 second
delay, Edge ports, PortFast, root guard, loop
guard, BPDU guard.
Hands on Root bridge
positioning, improving STP convergence.

802.1w, Improvements, convergence times. RSTP
bridge port roles, RSTP switch port states. Edge
ports, link ports.
Hands on RSTP configuration
and convergence.

Access/untagged ports, trunk/tagged ports,
PVST, PVST+, RPVST, MISTP, MSTP and
802.1s. MSTP BPDUs. Instances, Load
balancing, impact on CPU.
Hands on MSTP load
balancing.

Regions, Virtual bridges, domains.
Hands on
STP, RSTP and MSTP interoperation.