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Daniel333
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Alright I have just finished the ICND book from Cisco and I am in the review process. As well as deciding what labs to run on Wednesday. I was looking at STP. And I realized something. Is there anything like traceroute for Switches? So I can know the path a frame took?
say I had a fully meshed pack of 5 2950s, How do I trace one workstation to another? Do I really have to look at the MAC tables on each switch to do this?
thank in advance,
say I had a fully meshed pack of 5 2950s, How do I trace one workstation to another? Do I really have to look at the MAC tables on each switch to do this?
thank in advance,
-Daniel
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EdTheLad
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There will be only one path, you just need to know the spanning-tree topology.Networking, sometimes i love it, mostly i hate it.Its all about the $$$$ -
Netstudent
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you could just use "show spanning-tree" to map out the path from switch to switch. Taking note of root ports, designated ports, root bridge id, and why those ports are blocking or forwarding. Cost.....There is no place like 127.0.0.1 BUT 209.62.5.3 is my 127.0.0.1 away from 127.0.0.1!