FW: blocking and non-blocking

From: Stan Stewart (sstewart@FlairData.com)
Date: Tue Nov 08 2005 - 13:17:43 GMT-3


-----Original Message-----
From: Stan Stewart
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 9:44 AM
To: 'Keane, James'; 'DSchulz@dpsciences.com'
Subject: RE: blocking and non-blocking

All,
I think the question may refer to non-blocking architecture instead of
spanning tree.
Do a search on cisco.com for non-blocking architecture and you will find
plenty of info.
http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/search/search.pl?searchPhrase=non-blocking+
architecture&nv=Search+All+cisco.com%23%23cisco.com&nv=Technical+Support
+%26+documentation%23%23cisco.com%23TSD&language=en&country=US&accessLev
el=Customer&siteToSearch=cisco.com&x=7&y=10

Stan

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Keane, James
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 6:59 AM
To: Schulz, Dave; Qahtani, Mohammed S.(ECC) ; nobody@groupstudy.com;
ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: RE: blocking and non-blocking

Basic Spanning Tree Protocol - 802.1D has 5 states

blocking, listening, learning, forwarding and disabled

its well explained at
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/lan/cat6000/sw_5_5/cnfg_
gd/spantree.pdf

Spanning tree is in my opinion the most underrated and overlooked
technology used in networking, almost all networks use it yet very few
fully understand it ..

Here is an place you can check out spanning tree in all its variants

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk389/tk621/tsd_technology_support_proto
col_home.html

Rapid Per Vlan Spanning Tree is where most modern devices are at now

so read this document is essiental to get up to speed -

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/473/146.pdf

A simple question to check out someones understanding of spanning tree
..

How long (without portfast / all defaults configured) will it take a
port to transition from blocking to forwarding when a PC (or any device)
is plugged in ..

Now you cant really expect to pass your CCIE if you dont know that one !

Regards

James Keane

-----Original Message-----
From: Schulz, Dave [mailto:DSchulz@dpsciences.com]
Sent: 08 November 2005 10:55
To: Qahtani, Mohammed S.(ECC) ; nobody@groupstudy.com;
ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: RE: blocking and non-blocking

 As it relates to spanning-tree, or, port security?

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Sent: 11/8/2005 3:18 AM
Subject: blocking and non-blocking

Hello all,

What is exactly meant by a port is blocking or non-blocking. Is there a
technical paper on this

Thank you,



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