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Near the bottom of the following page, click on Terms and Conditions and agree to give away your first born child if you should break these terms and then you can get to many standards, inlucding IEEE 802.1w. Please let us know what you find out. ;-) http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/ Priscilla At 04:09 PM 2/28/02, nrf wrote: >Does anybody know exactly how Rapid Spanning Tree works, or have a link that >describes it in detail? What I'm really interested in knowing is the >technical details that make it better than old-school STP, and in >particular, if RSTP is better, then why didn't the original STP designers >make it like RSTP in the first place (not trying to criticize, I'm just >interested in the evolutionary process of protocols)? > >What I find curious is that I searched and while I found that web sites >freely discuss how RSTP is better (or not), or talk about which vendors have >implemented it or not, I haven't found a single site that describes exactly >what RSTP is doing from a technical perspective and why whatever it is doing >is better than STP. Furthermore, I'm not a member of IEEE, so I guess I >can't access the 802.1w doc. ________________________ Priscilla Oppenheimer http://www.priscilla.com Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=36869&t=36851 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
