RFC 2642:Cabletron's VLS Protocol Specification
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topology


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... services: o Topology services. Each switch maintains a distributed topology ...
... Topology services. Each switch maintains a distributed topology of the switch fabric by exchanging the following interswitch ...
... its existence to its neighboring switches and to establish the topology of the switch fabric. (Interswitch Keepalive messages ...
... o Interswitch Link State messages (VLS protocol) are used to determine and maintain a fully connected mesh topology graph of the switch fabric. Call-originating switches ...
... the switch fabric. Call-originating switches use the topology graph to determine the path over which to route a call connection ...


... identical databases describing the switch fabric topology. This database contains each switch ...
... link. A single topology can contain both types of links. At startup, all links ...


... Note that whenever there is a change in an adjacency relationship, or any change that alters the topology of the switch fabric, the set of best paths must be recalculated. ...


... Link state advertisements are used to describe various pieces of the routing topology within the switch fabric. Each switch in the fabric ...



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