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| Release date | 7/2/2018 | |
| Level | Intermediate | |
| Runtime | 2h 15m | |
| Closed captioning | N/A | |
| Transcript | N/A | |
| eBooks / courseware | N/A | |
| Hands-on labs | N/A | |
| Sample code | N/A | |
| Exams | Included |
Course description
This course discusses the options of spanning tree and what is happening when switches talk to each other to create a loop free topology.
Prerequisites
This is part 3 in the series.
Meet the expert
As a certified Microsoft Instructor, Ken has focused his career on various security aspects of computer and network technology since the early 1980s. He has offered a wide variety of IT training and high level consulting projects for Fortune 500 companies globally. Through the course of his extensive career, he has taught a full line of Microsoft, CompTIA, Cisco, and other high level IT Security curricula.
Course outline
Spanning Tree Protocol
Spanning Tree (17:49)
- Introduction (00:12)
- Types of STP (06:31)
- STP Operation eNotes (05:56)
- BPDU eNotes (05:01)
- Summary (00:08)
Root Bridge (27:31)
- Introduction (00:08)
- BPDU Types (01:10)
- Electing the Root Bridge (08:06)
- Root Bridge eNotes (12:20)
- STP Transition States (05:37)
- Summary (00:08)
PVST (24:37)
- Introduction (00:08)
- PVST (05:47)
- Demo: Per-VLAN Spanning Tree (05:04)
- Demo: VTP and Trunking (05:53)
- Demo: Change Root Bridge (04:55)
- Influencing the Root Bridge Election (02:40)
- Summary (00:08)
STP Options
Cost and Priority (24:40)
- Introduction (00:08)
- Changing Cost and Priority eNotes (05:26)
- Manipulate a Path (00:49)
- Demo: Cost and Priority (04:10)
- Convergence Time (01:07)
- RSTP Port States (04:47)
- Change of Port States (03:30)
- Running RSTP (03:12)
- Spanning Tree Security Overview (01:20)
- Summary (00:08)
UplinkFast (20:59)
- Introduction (00:08)
- UplinkFast eNotes (02:01)
- BackboneFast eNotes (03:39)
- Configure UplinkFast and BackboneFast (01:03)
- PortFast and BPDU Guard eNotes (03:15)
- BPDU Filter (02:13)
- Root Guard (02:39)
- Demo: PortFast (05:48)
- Summary (00:08)
Unidirectional Problems (19:49)
- Introduction (00:08)
- Unidirectional Problems eNotes (03:45)
- Loop Guard (03:06)
- Hardware Failure (01:20)
- Flex Links (01:11)
- Flex Links eNotes (01:03)
- Multiple Spanning Tree (01:48)
- MST Design eNotes (04:09)
- Internal Spanning Trees (00:48)
- MST and STP (01:05)
- Summary (01:13)
- Summary (00:08)