Cool. That's pretty much exactly what I was looking for. It still leaves one of my questions unanswered though. I know this might sound like a wise-ass question, but I assure you that I ask this with no malice. If RSTP really does offer such an improvement over STP, then why didn't we always have RSTP? Specifically, why didn't the inventors of the original STP put the features of RTSP into STP? Was it just a matter of learning from a mistake - that they thought that the long STP convergence time was acceptable, and then later realized that it wasn't? Or that they wanted to keep STP simple, only to find that customers really wanted these advanced (albeit complex) features? Or were there some technical issues with switches in the old days that might have prevented proper RTSP implementation? Or something else?
""Priscilla Oppenheimer"" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED].; > You can get to the standard. You don't have to be a member of IEEE. > > filler due to url bug filler due to url bug filler due to url bug filler > due to url bug filler due to url bug filler due to url bug filler due to > url bug filler due to url bug filler due to url bug > > 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=36871&t=36851 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
