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SWITCH - STP Exercise #1

Here’s an STP exercise for you. Given the bridge priorities, MAC addresses, and interface types in the diagram, calculate the root bridge, root ports, designated ports, and blocked ports. You can click on the image to enlarge it. I’ll post a solution in the next few days. As always, feel free to comment and ridicule my utter idiocy. Be gentle, though; I don’t usually post exercises like this.

Send any configuration BPDUs questions my way.

STP Exercsie #1

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