Postings related to my progress towards PhD research segment. I will post extracts of my readings. I might have to keep certain things to myself for some time, though, because those would be under development.
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Corrected
We had very high standard deviations in the convergence time of RSTP in our topologies. Investigating the reasons, we found that links going from Blocking to Forwarding state with a blocked state on the others side were taking two hello time worth in switching state. That doesnt matter to us, because those links dont carry any stations originating traffic (point to point ethernet links) and do not form part of the spanning tree. The spanning tree itself converges upon link failure within a second in all of our failure scenarios. I had to make adjustments to the shell scrip to summarize the results and we are running the simulations yet again.