561
Chapter 40
STP, RSTP and MSTP Protocols
This chapter covers the following topics:
“Overview” on page 562
“Bridge Priority and the Root Bridge” on page 563
“Path Costs and Port Costs” on page 564
“Port Priority” on page 565
“Forwarding Delay and Topology Changes” on page 566
“Hello Time and Bridge Protocol Data Units (BPDU)” on page 567
“Point-to-Point and Edge Ports” on page 568
“Mixed STP and RSTP Networks” on page 570
“Spanning Tree and VLANs” on page 571
“RSTP and MSTP BPDU Guard” on page 572
“STP, RSTP, MSTP Loop Guard” on page 574
“STP and RSTP Root Guard” on page 579