4
USING RESILIENCE FEATURES
Setting up resilience on your network helps protect critical links against 
failure, protects against network loops, and reduces network downtime 
to a minimum.
This chapter explains the features supported by the Switch that provide 
resilience for your network. It covers the following topics:
■ Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
■ Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) — an enhanced version of the 
STP feature.
For detailed descriptions of the Web interface operations and the 
Command Line Interface (CLI) commands that you require to manage the 
Switch please refer to the Management Interface Reference Guide 
supplied in HTML format on the CD-ROM that accompanies your Switch.