November 2005
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
13h 38m
English
A reliable area is one that can sustain the failure of one or more of its components without isolating a large segment of the network. The more failures the area can tolerate, the more robust the area.
Large network segments can be isolated in one of two ways:
The failure of a router connecting two areas isolates an area from the rest of the network (Figure 7.2).

The failure of a router or link partitions an area (Figure 7.3).
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