{"id":356,"date":"2017-02-14T21:58:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T05:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gregfina.com\/blog\/?p=356"},"modified":"2017-02-14T22:34:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T06:34:31","slug":"spanning-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gregfina.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/14\/spanning-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanning Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How does any switch get sold in the last 10 years which doesn&#8217;t implement at least a simplified spanning tree? &nbsp; We had to implement a distributed spanning tree algorithm for OMSCS CS6250, two assignment ago which was a few hundred lines of code. &nbsp; &nbsp;If a switch can see itself over a port, can&#8217;t it just disable both ports? &nbsp; &nbsp;This would prevent users causing issues, unproductivity and a nightmare of network troubleshooting. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That code should exist in the $69 desktop switch and up, no excuses not to add a few hundred lines of code. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does any switch get sold in the last 10 years which doesn&#8217;t implement at least a simplified spanning tree? &nbsp; We had to implement a distributed spanning tree algorithm for OMSCS CS6250, two assignment ago which was a few hundred lines of code. &nbsp; &nbsp;If a switch can see itself over a port, can&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gregfina.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/14\/spanning-tree\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spanning Tree&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46b0T-5K","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gregfina.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gregfina.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gregfina.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregfina.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregfina.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregfina.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregfina.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gregfina.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregfina.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gregfina.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}