VLAN Storm Control: Stopping Broadcast Floods at the Port A single misbehaving host can take down an entire VLAN. It does not take a spanning tree loop - a NIC J Jul 12, 2026 5 min read
STP UDLD: Detecting Unidirectional Links Before They Loop Spanning tree has one blind spot, and it is a dangerous one. STP decides whether to block a port based J Jul 12, 2026 5 min read
STP MST and PVST+ Interoperation: The Boundary, the CIST, and the Gotchas Two switching standards, both trying to prevent loops, neither aware the other exists. That is what an MST-to-PVST+ J Jul 12, 2026 6 min read
EIGRP IGP Migration: Moving from EIGRP to OSPF Without an Outage Sooner or later somebody decides the network is moving from EIGRP to OSPF. Maybe a merger brought in a multi- J Jul 12, 2026 7 min read
EIGRP Multi-Protocol Redistribution: The CCIE Scenarios That Break Networks Redistribution between two routing protocols at a single point is easy. Redistribution between two routing protocols at two points is J Jul 12, 2026 7 min read
EIGRP EIGRP over DMVPN: Multi-Hub Design and the Split-Horizon Problem EIGRP over DMVPN works beautifully, right up until the moment you realise none of your spokes can reach any of J Jul 12, 2026 7 min read