Lets say you have received your new switches and you want to configure the spanning-tree parameters according to their final role. You will have core, aggregation and access switches.
As mentioned before, I personally like rapid-pvst as minimum. So I will start with it, even though all the rests of the parameters are not dependent to [...]
Archive of posts filed under the spanning-tree category.
Fine Tunning Spanning-Tree Protocol
Optimizing Layer2 Switching Environments: Spanning-Tree Management (Part2)
Spanning-Tree Protocols
In Part1 we saw how a simple tweaking of the spanning-tree timers could improve the perceived uptime for a large switched environment. In this Part2 we will be considering the selection of an alternate spanning-tree protocol for our network.
Cisco support the following spanning-Tree protocols:
pvst+: Per-VLAN spanning-tree which is based on IEEE 802.1d with [...]
