I'm a bit at a loss here. I've been managing this switched network and am now beginning to see that I never fully understood STP. I know it's for preventing loops, but right now it's mainly causing me ...

Ethernet devices running the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) have been implemented in networks since the early 1990s. Many organizations take STP for granted and do not configure it per industry best ...

Those who had an opinion last week were split evenly: CCNA labs need either 2 or 3 switches, and CCNP labs need either 3 or 4. But why? We saw a few opinions floating around the blog last week, but ...