Date of Issue: 02-01-2023

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I. Introduction
II. Ethernet and All Things CSMA/CD

A. DIX, 802.3 and Ethernet

1. Addressing
2. The Mystery Two Bytes

B. Speeding Things Up

1. It's Still a Car

C. To Infinity and Beyond

III. The Basics of Switching, a.k.a. Transparent Bridging
IV. Spanning Tree, the Low-cost Path to Successful Switching

A. Configuration BPDUs

1. Electing the Root Switch
2. Choosing a Root Port
3. Preventing Loops

B. Attention all switches: CHANGE your MAC tables

V. STP Convergence -- a Closer Look

A. Blocking
B. Listening
C. Learning
D. Forwarding

VI. STP: It's all a matter of timing
VII. STP Optimization

A. Rooting, Timing, and Blocking -- Oh My!

1. LAN Design Guides

B. Spanning Tree Commands and Macros
C. Balancing a Heavy Load
D. Fast, Fast, and Fast

VIII. M-I-C, See You Real Soon. K-E-Y, Why? Because you paid for it!

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