Spanning Tree Protocol - IBM 8271 Nways F12 User Manual

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Using the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) functionality of your stack
makes your network more fault tolerant.
This chapter explains more about STP and the STP features supported
by the stack. It covers the following topics:
What is STP?
How STP Works
Enabling STP on a Stack
STP is a part of the 802.1d bridge specification defined by the IEEE
Computer Society. To explain STP more effectively, the stack will be
defined as a bridge.
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