What an Ethernet Switch Does Bridges and Switches What Is a Switch? Operation of Ethernet Switches Transparent Bridging Address Learning Traffic Filtering Frame Flooding Broadcast and Multicast Traffic Combining Switches Forwarding Loops Spanning Tree Protocol Spanning Tree Packets Choosing a Root Bridge Choosing the Least-Cost Path Blocking Loop Paths Spanning Tree Port States Spanning Tree Versions Switch Performance Issues Packet Forwarding Performance Switch Port Memory
