MST / Multi-Spanning Tree – Exhaustive review of all the gotchas, niche details, and diagrams / labbing to demonstrate behaviors and output for Exam Day!

This will be as brief of Exam Day notes for MST as I can make, I will eventually slowly lab the above Topology for demonstrations, but will cover all the basics first! The information required for switches to be in the same MST Region is as follows: MST Region Name (Blank by default) MST Region … Continue reading MST / Multi-Spanning Tree – Exhaustive review of all the gotchas, niche details, and diagrams / labbing to demonstrate behaviors and output for Exam Day!

STP – Multiple Spanning-Tree (MST), CST, PVST vs PVST+ reviewed, illustrated, configured and verified on the lab!

The above Topology is configured waaaay toward the bottom of the post, there is a lot of ground to cover in terms of the evolution of STP, and clarifying some differences in flavors. I have spent days researching Cisco documentation / Blogs / Discussions / Training material to cross reference MST information, as this is … Continue reading STP – Multiple Spanning-Tree (MST), CST, PVST vs PVST+ reviewed, illustrated, configured and verified on the lab!