Download or read book High Availability Networking with Cisco written by Vincent C. Jones and published by Addison Wesley Longman. This book was released on 2001 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores potential approaches to improving network availability and reducing losses due to downtime. The author discusses selecting bridging and routing protocols, multihomed hosts from individual client-to-server clusters, dial backup over asynchronous and ISDN links, hub and spokes topology, connecting to service providers, alternate routing through redundant firewalls without sacrificing security, supporting legacy systems using data link switching, and disaster recovery considerations. Wherever practical, one or more specific scenarios are defined and example solutions implemented, typically using Cisco routers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.