[rbridge] Tie breaking in trees

Donald Eastlake d3e3e3 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 5 14:53:24 PDT 2009


On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Radia Perlman<Radia.Perlman at sun.com> wrote:
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> ...
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> An alternative would be to replace a) with:
>
> a) most preferred are those established by P2P Hellos. If there
> are one or more of those, R1 is allowed to transmit on any of those,
> and R2 is required to accept from any of those.

I prefer this alternative. It is safe to multipath multi-destination
frames across parallel one-hop links that are configured to be P2P. So
I see no reason to add complexity at the receiver by requiring to it
reject such frames on all but one of such P2P links.

Thanks,
Donald


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