Hi, On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:27:12PM -0400, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 05:00:36PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote: > > <rant> > > MST is what comes out if vendor committees get together, and agree to > > implement the least common determinator in the most complicated way. > > </rant> > > I completely disagree - it's what comes out of solving problems > related to the LAN - the LOCAL area network. In virtualized LANs, > there's typically only a few possible physical topologies that can > exist. MST seeks to exploit this to lower the amount of processing > power that is required.
Since MST was standardized long before the "virtualized LAN" environments
were common, this is a nice after-the-fact explanation - but the fact
that *years after protocol design*, networks have emerged that make MST
actually work doesn't make it a better protocol.
gert
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