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Dynamic Source Route Recovery

Dynamic Source Route Recovery (DSRR) is a proprietary protocol that enables a group of switches to handle a link or switch failure without session loss.

A basic redundant setup must have a minimum of two switches performing source route bridging between a legacy Token-Ring and an emulated Token-Ring (or another legacy ring) as illustrated in Figure 8.

 

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Figure 8. Example of Dynamic Source Route Recovery, Base Configuration

This configuration already has redundant paths between the two rings, but since moving traffic from one path to the other involves changing source route, this would involve session loss.

When DSRR is enabled, an extra path is automatically created between the two rings for each switch, as shown in Figure 9. During normal operation, these extra paths do not forward any traffic.

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