Transparent Bridging & Spanning Trees

The purpose of the spanning tree is to have bridges dynamically discover a subset of the topology that is loop-free (a tree) and yet has just enough connectivity so that where physically possible, there is a path between every pair of LANs (the tree is spanning).

The purpose of the spanning tree is to have bridges dynamically discover a subset of the topology that is loop-free (a tree) and yet has just enough connectivity so that where physically possible, there is a path between every pair of LANs (the tree is spanning).