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### Variants
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-| Names | Supporting Devices\* | Description |
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+**TODO**: This needs updating and more compat info.
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+| Names | Supporting Devices | Description |
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| :--- | :--- | :--- |
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-| 802.1D, STP | Cisco IOS, Linksys LGS | Single instance, slow |
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-| PVST/PVST+ | Cisco IOS | Like STP, one instance per VLAN |
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-| VSTP | Juniper | Compatible with Cisco's PVST |
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-| 802.1w, RSTP | Brocade ICX, Linksys LGS | Single instance, fast, backwards-compatible with STP. |
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-| Rapid-PVST+ | Cisco IOS | Like PVST+ but based on RSTP |
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-| VSTP | Juniper | Based on RSTP, compatible with STP and Cisco's PVST |
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-| 802.1s, MSTP, MST | Cisco IOS | Multiple instances with configurable VLAN members |
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+| 802.1D, STP | Cisco IOS, Juniper Junos, Linksys LGS | Single instance, slow. |
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+| 802.1w, RSTP | Brocade ICX, Linksys LGS | Rapid STP. Single instance, but fast. Backwards-compatible with STP. |
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+| 802.1s, MSTP | *TBD* | Multiple STP. Similar to RSTP, but allows creating multiple instances and assigning one or multiple VLANs to them. |
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+| PVST | Cisco IOS | Like STP, but one instance per VLAN. |
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+| PVST+ | Cisco IOS | Like PVST, but compatible with classical/single-instance STP. |
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+| Rapid PVST/PVST+ | Cisco IOS | Like PVST or PVST+, but with rapid convergence times (like RSTP). |
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+| RSTP | Juniper Junos | **TODO** |
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+| VSTP | Juniper Junos | Based on RSTP, compatible with STP and Cisco's PVST. |
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| 802.1Q | | ??? |
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-(\*) Very incomplete list.
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+**Note**: Very incomplete list, does not include most MSTP variants.
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### General
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