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Oh...Spanning Tree
It's the "S" word we don't like to hear, and often times it has degraded networks or even took them down entirely. (All Systems Down - an older but classic story) It's also one of those things that nobody really likes, we even had network companies, as well as IEEE try to replace it with something else. …
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Store-and-Forward vs. Cut-Through Switching
Oct 5, 2011 · 3 min read · CCNA Cisco Cisco Discovery Protocol Cut-through switching Fragment free General ICND2 MAC address Network switch networking Spanning Tree Protocol Store and forward Switch ·Network-Cable-Color Switching in the network can happen in two ways, these layer-two devices send frames but they can forward them in different ways. These different modes have positive and negative effects which depend on the type of network environment that runs through them! Store-and-forward is just like the name …
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The Middle of Layer Two Redundancy
Sep 7, 2011 · 3 min read · Broadcast radiation CCNA CCNA Security Cisco cisco Cisco IOS Data Link Layer Ethernet frame General ICND2 IEEE IEEE 802.1D Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Local Area Network MAC address Network Layer networking OSI model Redundancy Redundancy (engineering) security Software software Spanning Tree Protocol STP technology Time to live ·In the month of August I talked about the "beginnings" of layer two redundancy mainly looking at the basic foundations and fundamentals of having layer two redundancy. Let's continue are discussion about redundancy in the layer two environment. To review what STP does (Spanning Tree Protocol) it works at …
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The Beginnings of Layer Two Redundancy
network-diagram In a perfect world we would never need redundancy on a network infrastructure, but as you know as well as I know we don't live in a perfect world. Hardware will eventually fail, bottlenecks will appear, and the speed of our network will become slower when we max the bandwidth on links. So having …
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