Networking 101: Understanding Spanning Tree

Aug 27, 2008, 21:01 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Charlie Schluting)

"Dr. Perlman devised a method by which bridges can obtain layer 2 routing utopia: redundant and loop-free operation. Think of spanning tree as a tree that the bridge keeps in memory for the purposes of optimized and fault-tolerant data forwarding."

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