Using the newer spanning tree “long mode” path cost using a 32-bit value provides more granularity in data centers that use extremely high-speed interfaces.

STP is one of the big motivations for adding more switches to a lab, so we’ll have a specific example to discuss why the 2-switch topo would do the trick, and where we’d really want another ...

Thanks to spanning tree protocol, switched network environments are capable of connecting bridges and switches with multiple paths for data transmission.

The Esau-Williams algorithm is one of the best known heuristics for the capacitated minimum spanning tree problem. This paper describes a simple enhancement of this heuristic. On benchmark test ...