802.

1d Spanning-Tree

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Review of 802.1d STP
What problem did it solve?
BPDU Review

Protocol Root
Msg Msg Max Hello Forward
Identifier Ver Flags Root ID Path Bridge ID Port ID
Type Age Age Time Delay
Cost

Root Bridge Election Process

Port Roles and Port States
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 Tie Breakers
Two-or-more equal cost paths to Root
Bridge.
How is Root Port determined?
Two-or-more bridges on same segment with
equal-cost paths to Root Bridge.
How is Designated Port determined?

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 802.1d Topology Change
A topology change is triggered by:
Learning Forwarding (and at least one Designated Port)
Learning Blocking
Port becomes disabled.
Process is NOT triggered by a port configured with PortFast.
Any event above triggers creation/transmission of
Topology Change Notification (TCN)
Transmitted on Root Port until acknowledged.
Msg
Protocol
802.3 / 802.2 Headers Identifier Ver Type Padding FCS
(0x80)
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 TCN Root Bridge Actions
What does the Root Bridge do when receiving
a TCN?
Sets TC-Flag when transmitting BPDUs into that
VLAN.
Those BPDUs are now called, Topology Change BPDUs.
Continues transmitting TC-BPDUs for Forwarding_Delay
+ Max_Age (35-secs)
Reduces its own CAM Aging time to Forwarding Delay
for the affect VLAN.
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 TC-BPDU: Non-Root Bridge Actions
What do Non-Root Bridges do when receiving a
TC-BPDU?
Reduce CAM Aging Time = Forwarding-Delay
Any MAC addresses within affected VLAN not heard
from during this time are flushed from CAM/MAC
Address-Table.

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 Verification of Topology Changes

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