My last post talked about many details of the Spanning Tree Protocol. While I did my best to explain how it works using carefully selected words, sometimes videos are just better.

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I’m currently studying for my CCNP SWITCH exam. Which is obviously all about switches, but mostly builds upon the foundation of the ICND2 and CCNA exam about switches and the Spanning Tree Protocol. So, if you are planning on getting your CCNP definitley make sure you pay attention to STP (Spanning Tree Protocol for short), you will need to know a lot about it.

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Today I just wanted to show you a very minimal configuration for a Cisco switch so that we can at least get our network working at White Cloud Water Company and then we can dive into some other topics in more detail. switch1# config t switch1(config)# interface vlan 1 switch1(config-if)# ip address 192.168.2.2 255.255.255.0 switch1(config-if)# [...]

The following will describe how a switch in a local area network works: Switches start with an empty table A computer plugged into the switch sends data trying to get to another computer The switch receives this frame and puts the senders MAC Address in its table Because the switches table is empty it then [...]

10BaseT – Is the most common type of ethernet cabling – Has a max distance of 100 meters Hubs – don’t look at the frame or analyze of of the data. They just repeat the signal to every port on the hub. Switches break up collision domains Switches do not break up broadcast or multicast [...]

There are many different types of cabling, but the most common is 10baseT which has a maximum distance of 100 meters. If you want to extend your network beyond 100 meters you will have to put in some type of repeater because after 100 meters the signal because unreadable. Back in the day people would [...]