Network resilience

[Bakedgoods]

Can anyone point me in the direction of any good reads/tutorials on creating network resilience?

Fairly basic please, although I understand the concepts, reasoning and general ideas i'm not all knowing.

Thanks

(Preferably with pretty pictures, ha-ha)

 

[Bakedgoods]

I'm aware of spanning tree, i'm looking for more implementing resilience at the design phase. So the actual physical linking of switches and routers to create network resilience.

Thanks though I will read what you've posted!

 

[Bakedgoods]

It's the area I want to eventually be involved in, with the ultimate aim of specialising in security (firewalls, IDS etc).

Obviously you are all far more knowledgeable than me, but I thought the point of spanning-tree was to prevent broadcast storms when there is network resilience in place? (By effectively shutting down a link between switches if I remember rightly).

I understand what you are saying about that being a wasted link though and it results in traffic that could have took that route heading another way.

I think I need to read up on layer-3 switching.

 

[Bakedgoods]

I've got no idea what you are talking about

Any forums/websites you can recommend I sign up to?