N4N013: Spanning Tree Part 1 – An Introduction and Broadcast Storms

Update: 2025-02-13

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Spanning tree is a topic so mysterious and complicated that common advice is just to disable it. In today’s episode, we start a mini-series on spanning tree, hoping to better explain what it is and what it does. We begin with basic spanning tree terminology and its role in preventing loops in an Ethernet network.... Read more »

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N4N013: Spanning Tree Part 1 – An Introduction and Broadcast Storms

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N4N013: Spanning Tree Part 1 – An Introduction and Broadcast Storms

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N4N013: Spanning Tree Part 1 – An Introduction and Broadcast Storms