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\section{Spanning Tree}
Spanning Tree exists for the \textbf{sole} reason to save "your" network and all the broadcast storms an network engineer having a bad day can by mistake create!
STP comes from the above desire where redundancy was wanted but no protocol existed before STP to help in this regard.
\begin{table}[h]
\centering
\caption{Spanning Tree standrds}
\label{stpstandards}
\resizebox{\columnwidth}{!}{%
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|l|}
\hline
\textbf{} & \textbf{Standard} & \textbf{Ressource Usage} & \multicolumn{2}{l|}{\textbf{Convergence}} \\ \hline
CST & 802.1D & Low & Slow & All vlans \\ \hline
PVST+ & Cisco & High & Slow & Per vlan \\ \hline
RSTP & 802.1w & So-so (Med.) & Fast & All vlans \\ \hline
RPVST+ & Cisco & On-the-double (V.High) & Fast & Per vlan \\ \hline
MST & 802.1s & Med. - High & Fast & Vlan list \\ \hline
\end{tabular}%
}
\end{table}
\subsection{Port Roles}
When a switch is enabled for Spanning Tree. One of the following roles will have been assumed by any port on the switch in question.
\begin{itemize}
\item \textbf{Root port:} Only 1 port on any switch (non-counting the root bridge!). Is always the port with the lowest metric (aka. best path) to the root bridge.
\item \textbf{Designated port:} A designated port is the port on any segment closest to the root bridge and forwarding traffic.
\item \textbf{\textit{Non}-designated port:} Put in blocking mode and not currently forwarding traffic.
\item \textbf{Disabled port:} The port has been one-way-or-another shut down.
\end{itemize}
\subsection{Standards}
\subsubsection{STP}
\subsubsection{PVST}
\subsubsection{RPVST+}
\subsubsection{MST}
\subsection{Features}
\begin{itemize}
\item PortFart
\item UplinkFast
\item BackboneFast
\item BPDU Guard
\item BPDU Filter
\item Root Guard
\item Loop Guard
\item Unidirectional Link Detection (UDLD)
\item FlexLinks
\end{itemize}