[Beowulf] Spanning Tree Protocol and latency: allowing loops in switching networks for minimizing switch hops
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Greg Lindahl lindahl at pbm.comTue Feb 23 13:10:15 PST 2010
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On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 01:23:59PM -0600, Rahul Nabar wrote: > In the interest of latency minimum switch hops make sense and for that > loops might sometimes provide the best solution. STP disables all loops. All you gain is a bit of redundancy, but the price is high. -- greg
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