Week 5: Preventing Loops – Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)

[Enes Simnica]

Hello Cisco Community!

Redundancy is great! Until it creates loops. That’s where Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) steps in!
In this week’s session, I dive into how STP protects Layer 2 networks from broadcast storms, how the root bridge election process works, and how RSTP improves convergence times.

Duration: 28 minutes
Coming soon: a 3 hour+ deep dive where I’ll cover CST, PVST+, RSTP, and MST in detail. Stay tuned!

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Yours,
Enes (aka The G) - your friendly Networking Ninja

[Martin L]

Awesome, Thank You for sharing!!!

[Enes Simnica]

U’re very welcome G, appreciate the support!

[Joseph W. Doherty]

BTW, for anyone carefully listening, at about the 15:32 mark, when Enes describes the BPDU as the British Protocol Data Unit, he meant to say the Bridge Protocol Data Unit.