STP - Spanning Tree Protocol Course

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Created by Navid Yahyapour
Last updated Wed, 25-Jan-2023
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Course overview

STP is an old technology but still should be well understood by all the network engineers, there are many networks out there in which STP is widely being used. In order to troubleshoot any technology.

You need to have detailed knowledge of it, how it exactly works and why it works that way.

In this course, we have tried to explain STP from scratch in detail and slowly going through the advanced topics.

The lab which is provided by this course is an all-in-one comprehensive lab that is designed on the EVE-NG and can be imported to your EVE-NG Community and Pro Editions.

The topics which will be covered in this course: • What is STP and why do we need it • The STP basics • Configuring the STP on a Cisco Catalyst switch • Tree structure and the Root Bridge/Switch • Per VLAN STP and VLAN Based Load Balancing • STP Timers and tuning them • Direct Link Failure and UplinkFast • Indirect Link Failure and BackboneFast • PortFast for Access and Trunk ports (the considerations) • BPDU Guard and BPDU Filter • Root Guard and Loop Guard • PVST+ BPDU Wireshark capture and analysis • STP Root Bridge and FHRP Active Gateways and their interaction • STP vs Rapid STP (All the differences) • Rapid PVST configuration on a Cisco Catalyst switch • Rapid PVST BPDU Capture and Analysis • Comparing different L2 Access Designs (Looped/Loop-Free) and STP considerations • Enterprise Core and Distribution layer analysis • L3 Access Design and the STP • MC-LAG (Multi-chassis Link Aggregation) and STP • MST analysis and comparison with STP and RSTP • MST and PVST Simulation Resource Requirements for running the Lab: • You need to have EVE-NG Community or Professional edition installed on VMware Workstation/ESXi as a VM or Bare-Install on a Server • Lab contains two heavy nodes (Nexus 9500v) needs 6 vCPU (Threads) and 16 GB RAM •


What will i learn?

  • This course is designed based on the Real Enterprise Campus networks and covers all types of Access Layer Designs including L2 (Looped and Loop-Free) as well as L3.
  • You will understand what exactly happens to the STP whenever you change the Access Layer design from one to another.
  • We have also included an MC-LAG (Cisco’s vPC in this case) to get you familiar with the NX-OS and also Flow-Based Load Balancing

Requirements

  • You need to have basic understanding/knowledge of L2 and L3 networking in order to follow the course.

Modules

26 Lessons 05:33:03 Hours
STP Course Introduction and Topology Overview [Sample Videos]
2 Lessons 00:12:46 Hours
  • STP Course Introduction
    Preview 00:07:42
  • STP Course - The Main Topology Overview
    Preview 00:05:04
  • STP Course - Spanning Tree Protocol Basics
    00:20:18
  • STP Course - STP Basics on a Catalyst Switch
    00:23:33
  • STP Course - Root Bridge
    00:17:08
  • STP Course - Per-VLAN STP and VLAN Based Load Balancing
    00:08:26
  • STP Course - Spanning-Tree Protocol Timers
    00:09:19
  • STP Course - Direct Link Failure and UplinkFast
    00:09:35
  • STP Course - Indirect Link Failure and BackboneFast
    00:13:09
  • STP Course - PortFast for Access and Trunk ports
    00:12:35
  • STP Course - BPDU Guard and BPDU Filter
    00:15:32
  • STP Course - Root Guard and Loop Guard
    00:14:03
  • STP Course - Port ID
    00:07:26
  • STP Course - Port-Channels and STP
    00:11:18
  • STP Course - PVST Plus BPDUs Wireshark Capture
    00:18:48
  • STP Course - STP Root Bridge and FHRPs Active Gateway
    00:11:08
  • STP Course - STP vs Rapid-STP
    00:16:40
  • STP Course - Rapid PVST Basic configuration
    00:18:08
  • STP Course - Rapid PVST BPDU WireShark capture and Proposal Agreement
    00:14:28
  • STP Course - L2 Loop-Free Access Design and FHRP Active Gateway to STP Root
    00:08:16
  • STP Course - Core and Distribution Layer configuration overview
    00:13:15
  • STP Course - L3 Access Design and Spanning Tree Protocol
    00:10:36
  • STP Course - MC-LAG and STP
    00:19:57
  • STP Course - MST
    00:17:39
  • STP Course - MST and PVST Simulation
    00:09:00
  • STP Course EVE-NG Labs
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Navid Yahyapour

Instructor at Orhan Ergun, LLC Network Consultancy and Training

16 Courses
Instructor at Orhan Ergun, LLC Network Consultancy and TrainingSpecialized in Routing, Switching, Enterprise and Service Provider Certification Trainings. 
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