STP Port Modes

Hi All, me and my STP woes again

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In the learning stage, when it says the ports learn MAC addresses, does this definition mean that "trunk ports store source macs in the mac table, but don't actually forward the frames to the destinations?".......

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veritas_libertas

That's correct. It's processing BPDUs as well as building the MAC table.

control

Whilst STP is going through the process of finding root bridge etc..when ports are in learning stage, do the switches cache frames sent by PCs to send them on once converged or are they dropped?

control

Whilst STP is going through the process of finding root bridge etc..when ports are in learning stage, do the switches cache frames sent by PCs to send them on once converged or are they dropped?

veritas_libertas

Funny enough, I was getting ready to respond to your question when I received the following in my inbox:

https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/message/233689#233689

I belong to the CCNA study group on the Cisco Learning Network.

control

veritas_libertas wrote: »

Funny enough, I was getting ready to respond to your question when I received the following in my inbox:

https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/message/233689#233689

I belong to the CCNA study group on the Cisco Learning Network.

Sorry about the double post, was on my phone, not sure what happened!

Thanks for that link, what a coincidence, got my answer!