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[Beowulf] Spanning Tree Protocol and latency: allowing loops in switching networks for minimizing switch hops

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Rahul Nabar rpnabar at gmail.com
Tue Feb 23 21:32:02 PST 2010


On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm at xmission.com> wrote:

>
> For the most trivial of loops there is link aggregation.

Yup, that's true. Am already using link aggregation but never thought
of that as a loop before. But makes sense.

> For more interesting loops you can run many ethernet switches
> as wire speed ip routers talking a routing protocol like ospf.

Thanks! I will look that up. Maybe it serves my need.

-- 
Rahul



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