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Hey! So I'm struggling to understand the concept of Discarding in RSTP. In STP, There are two state , Blocking and Listening. In blocking the ports will only listen to BPDU and in Listening they will also send BPDUs and then a Root Bridge will be ele...

I am working on an assignment for a college course and I am having trouble getting my DHCP settings to work properly. The goal of the assignment is to break up the devices on the Main-Office-Router so that each department is on its own VLAN. I did th...

Hi AllI got 2x 2960 switches in a stack. The member switch failedSwitch 1  - Member -  switch priority is 1Switch 2 - Master - switch priority is 5I got spare switch, just need to check if the below steps are ok:  * Check new switch has same IOS and ...

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Resolved! STP Path Cost

Hey! I'm learning STP but I'm confused on why do we need a path cost to block a port, the traffic between the two switch will be blocked no matter where which side is blocked.Is the path price is just a metric to block a port ? like there is no real ...

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Hello,I wanted to confirm the behavior of configurations I often see in industrial automation systems. I was taught one broadcast domain per switch(VLAN) but I frequently see 2 separate subnets operating on one physical switch with only the default V...

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I have configured a stack of 9300 switch and no local username and password has been configured.  I did not configure login local command on console.Now i am trying to login from console and switch is asking for username and password as mentioned abo...

Hi Everyone,   Just started working with Cisco switches so a bit of a newbie.   I was asked to step up some IE5000 switches running OS15.2 with SSH version 2 only. Which went fine, thanks to the tutorials in the community, however once the device is ...

I've recently attempted to pull a 5596UP from storage to handle some extra load but was faced with an odd issue, I have zero console output. The status lights on both PSUs work, as well as the small red/green status indicator on the SFP+ side of the ...