Section 9
Rapid spanning tree protocol (RSTP)
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Figure 14:
9.4.2
Ring and star topology
In ring and star topology, switches are connected in ring and devices are connected in star topology.
The IED is connected to two different switches. Switch Sw1 (or Sw2) should be configured as the
root bridge.
In this case, all the IEDs will communicate with Sw1; only in case of a link failure or other failure in
the switch Sw1 the redundant link via Sw2 will be activated.
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Figure 15:
9.4.3
Ring topology
In ring topology, IEDs and switch are connected to form a ring. Ring is the most preferred topology
with RSTP. In
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Sw1, root bridge
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16, switch Sw1 is the root bridge, if the priority of Sw2 is greater than that of the
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