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| Book: | Designing Large Scale Lans | |
| Subject: | Designing Large-Scale LANs Review | |
| Date: | 2004-01-15 07:50:47 | |
| From: | Jeff | |
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Rating:
 
It began by covering basic networking concepts (OSI model, bus/ring/star topologies) but then it hit a harder subject: STP, Spanning Tree Protocol. Here the book failed miserably. The book states that when given two possible paths to root the switch will pick one at random (page 63, last paragraph, "But wait--it gets worse."), which is absolutely incorrect. STP defines a very explicit comparison for choosing one path over another based on the Bridge ID and path cost. Anyway, at that point I had to stop reading for fear of reaching material I did not yet know and then learning something that could be so incorrect. |
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