As you know, STP (Spanning Tree Protocol) is the key protocol of Switching world. With STP, link redundancy is provided and switching loops are avoided.
STP has different versions. One of the STP version is RSTP (Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol). Like it name, RSTP (Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol) is the fastest converged version of STP.
In this example, we will configure RSTP (Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol) with Packet Tracer.
You can DOWNLOAD the Cisco Packet Tracer example with .pkt format At the End of This Lesson.
For all Packet Tracer Examples and Files, you can check Packet Tracer Labs Page.
For our RSTP (Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol) example, we will use the below switching topology.
In STP (Spanning Tree Protocol), Blocking State is 20 seconds, Listenning State is 15 seconds and Learning State is 15 seconds. So, for STP, going through forwarding states needs 50 seconds. This total time is 15 seconds in RSTP (Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol). Because RSTP, bypasses the Blocking and Listenning states.
Let’s start to configure RSTP (Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol) on Cisco Packet Tracer.
Switch0(config)# spanning-tree mode ?
pvst Per-Vlan spanning tree mode
rapid-pvst Per-Vlan rapid spanning tree mode
For all Packet Tracer Examples and Files, you can check Packet Tracer Labs Page.
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