20.
Description of the Ring Protocol
This chapter describes the Autonomous Extensible Ring Protocol.
The Autonomous Extensible Ring Protocol (abbreviated hereafter to Ring Protocol) is a
Layer 2 network redundancy protocol for ring topologies.
20.1 Overview of the Ring Protocol
20.2 Basic Ring Protocol principles
20.3 Overview of single ring operation
20.4 Overview of multi-ring operation
20.5 Multi-fault monitoring functionality for the Ring Protocol
20.6 Ring Protocol network design
20.7 Notes on Ring Protocol usage
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