Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Types of spanning tree protocols

SPT (802.1d) - the original, good ol' Spanning Tree
PVST+ - Cisco per-VLAN SPT
RSTP -(802.1w) - Rapid Spanning Tree
RPVST+ - Cisco per-VLAN RSTP
MST - RSTP on multiple VLAN instances (do not need SPT per VLAN, groups similar topologies)

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