The main difference between the two is convergence time. RIP-2 considers link as failed after 180 seconds not receiving updates from it, compared to 40 seconds for OSPF. And OSPF sends route updates immediately in contrast to RIP which sends updates ...

Well, basically, as I understand that, STP finds shortest paths from each switch to the root switch using port weights and makes ports along each path - forwarding and all others - blocking. Now I'm trying to understand what was the point of introduc...

I'm reading Wendell Odom's books and I have a question regarding VLANs and trunking. As far as I understood trunking is needed when you have network which is splitted between several switches. When a host sends a broadcast it has to be delivered to a...