"The Switch Book" by Rich Seifert " is very good. But there are a lot new features developed after that book published. Does Rich have any plan for next edition? or any new switch book covered more last five years technology?
I have discussed doing a second edition with my publisher, to cover exactly the sort of things the poster implies: RSTP, MSTP, Authentication, Provider Bridges, etc. Unfortunately, my current time commitments prevent me from working on this project, but that may change over the next year. I don't know of any single book today that adequately covers the developments in switch technology over the past 5 years; most of the information may be available only from the standards themselves, or from various "white papers" and similar vendor documentation.
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