Applying IEEE 802.1w (RSTP) to Improve Service Availability
James T. Yu · 2003
This paper presents a new approach to improving the availability of redundant servers, which include a primary server and a backup server[1]. The current fault tolerant schemes for redundant servers cover failure cases for the servers themselves, but do not provide a cost-effective solution to network failures[2]. Examples of the current approach to addressing network failures are described as follows: 1.