Today I am going to talk about the widely used protocol in the switching scenarios called as Rapid Spanning tree protocol. RSTP all you know that is a enhanced version of the STP (Spanning Tree Protocol) and is now used in many of the LAN networks there in enterprises.
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RSTP- Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
Replacing the concept of 5 port states in STP, RSTP comes up with the 3 port states only and these port states are discarding, learning and forwarding.
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Fig 1.1- STP Topology |
STP has 5 states and these states are Blocking, Listening, Learning, Forwarding and Disabled where we replaced the blocking, listening and discarding with the discarding state in RSTP. Below is the table showing the states of the STP and RSTP
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Fig 1.2- STP and RSTP Port States |