Subject: [rbridge] Time to summarize "forward or block" BPDU thread

From: anoop.ghanwani at hp.com (Ghanwani, Anoop)
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:29:07 -0700

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> [mailto:rbridge-bounces at postel.org] On Behalf Of Radia Perlman
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> BPDU thread
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> But per-ingress trees is pretty close to optimal anyway. It will be a 
> tree of shortest paths from the sender to each receiver.

This is exactly what IEEE 802.1 is trying to do with the project
on Shortest Path Bridging.

Anoop