STP Troubleshooting

The final section of this chapter focuses on how to apply the information covered in Chapter 1 and in the first half of this chapter. Although this section helps you prepare to troubleshoot STP problems in real networks, the main goal for this section is to prepare you to answer STP questions on the CCNA exams.

STP questions tend to intimidate many test takers. STP uses many rules, with tiebreakers in case one rule ends with a tie. Without much experience with STP, people tend to distrust their own answers. Also, even those of us with networking jobs already probably do not troubleshoot STP very often, because STP runs by default and works well using default configuration settings in medium to small networks, so engineers ...

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