---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Nicholas Irving" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 20:15:06 +0100
>Hi all, >Has anybody ever tried having a redundant bridge configuration, so that >if the first fails the seconds will take over? I need a high >availability and cannot seem to find any mention of how, only diagrams >of how it should look like. > >Thanks > >Nicholas Irving >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This is what STP takes care of. You put the multiple bridges between your segments, and they negotiate using STP to decide which bridge will forward packets, and the other one doesn't. Then, if the first one goes down, the other one will take over and start forwarding packets between the segments. That's a basic description of the STP process. _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge
