Broadcast storm and a Routing loop

mattsthe2

I just got done reading about Broadcast storms.

Could one say that a broadcast storm is similar to a Routing loop but B-Storms happen at Layer2 where loops happen at L3?


And obviously a stom can take down an entire network.

Netstudent

there are some similarities i guess. A routing loop is caused by an invalid routing table.

L2 needs a physical loop to create a broadcast storm, where as a routing loop can occur over a single wire and doesn't necesarily need a loop in the network to occur.

Also in a routing loop, a unicast packet can be looped , whereas in a L2 loop, you would need a broadcast frame to create the storm.

mattsthe2

Sweet...that give me some idea of the differences between them.