August 2008
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
22h 27m
English
book
The All-New Switch Book: The Complete Guide to LAN Switching Technology, Second Edition
by Rich Seifert, James Edwards
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Chapter 5. Loop Resolution
In a networking context, bridges may indeed be the greatest invention since sliced bread.[] However, they are not without their limitations. All of the discussions in earlier chapters made the assumption that the underlying topology could support bridge operation. In this chapter, we consider the topological restrictions imposed by the use of bridges and the means by which we can implement and enforce these restrictions.
[] Many of us have always wondered what the greatest invention was before sliced bread.