Summary: In this episode we talk about spanning tree. What does it do? How do we configuring it? To answer these questions we setup a lab with two Cisco 3560 switches. We configure trunk ports, a spanning tree root bridge, and we look at the inner workings of spanning tree.<br> THE LAB DIAGRAMS<br> <br> * <a href="http://section9.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Spanning-Tree-Lab-1-Phase-1.pdf">Phase 1</a><br> * <a href="http://section9.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Spanning-Tree-Lab-1-Phase-2.pdf">Phase 2</a><br> * <a href="http://section9.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Spanning-Tree-Lab-1-Phase-3.pdf">Phase 3</a><br> <br> THE SWITCH CONFIG FILES<br> <br> * <a href="http://section9.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/sw1.txt">sw1</a><br> * <a href="http://section9.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/sw2.txt">sw2</a><br> <br>
