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If you need to disable spanning-tree on a particular VLAN in your Cisco-based network, use the following command:
Switch(config)# no spanning-tree vlan 13
This will disable spanning-tree on unlucky VLAN 13.
If you have some good examples of why you might want to disable spanning-tree for a VLAN, please …
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Today I was browsing through the Cisco NetPro Forums and came across someone that needed to track down which switch port a <acronym title="Media Access Control">MAC</acronym> address had been dynamically learned on.
I'd seen this sort of thing before in the Bridge MIB, so I assumed it …
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In a Metro Ethernet network, the possibility exists for a lot of NetBIOS broadcasts if your users are connecting directly to the ring rather than through a firewall. My first assumption was that most users would have a firewall, but this is really only guaranteed in the case of business-class …
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