#11043: . ---------------------------+---------------------------- Reporter: manjammehta | Owner: nobody Type: bug | Status: closed Priority: normal | Milestone: R1 Component: - General | Version: R1/Development Resolution: junk | Keywords: Blocked By: | Blocking: Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All ---------------------------+---------------------------- Changes (by humdinger): * status: new => closed * keywords: 642-813 => * resolution: => junk Old description: > You look at simply the show spanning tree says that the spanning tree > protocol is an able the type a protocol is IEEE this means that we're > running a protocol that is compatible with the standard of spanning tree > because these any these numbers that start with the are 80 to use these > are defined by the other IEEE organization like in thecae of either net > even as defined by 80 2.3 then you'll see there's sub specifications like > Gigabit Ethernet would be 80 2.3 Z or in this case there's I 8.o 2.1 D is > talking about internet but it's not mad spanning tree for Africa internet > so this PST this is what the Cisco switches run as the defaults there's > two other versions that are known as rapid spanning tree protocol and > multiple spanning tree protocol sometimes this is MST or sometimes MSTP > these two you form the new standard and the idea behind these two is that > they took a lot of the are the custom changes that Cisco made to the > purview man spanning tree and then a didn't into a standardized > [http://642-813dump.com/ 642-813] protocol so if you have a Cisco switch > and then you have onerous to switch or some other vendor you technically > can run the new enhancements because they're now defined by the other > standards so the original common spanning tree the the rapid spanning > tree and the multiple spanning tree these ones are standards the PTSD > plus this is the Cisco version other now the overall idea the protocol is > that we're going to build the network as if it was area a tree you're a > hierarchy were at the top of the tree we have what is known as the root > bridge and the rib ridge's is basically reference point for everyone else > to figure out how should I send my traffic through the network ultimately > what you would see is that when switches forward traffic between each > other they're going to have to send it some way towards the bird bridge > before can be delivered to other switches so if we have a case here where > we have a number of switches even though the physical connections between > them may not look like this we may have other redundant paths like the > link between five and seven where between four and six or between3&6 but. > http://642-813dump.com/ New description: -- -- Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/11043#comment:1> Haiku <https://dev.haiku-os.org> Haiku - the operating system.