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Re: [RAM] Ramblings about "locator"

Dino Farinacci <dino@cisco.com> Thu, 14 June 2007 17:28 UTC

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Subject: Re: [RAM] Ramblings about "locator"
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> Well, that horrible thought crossed my mind. I think I disagree
> with Jarno's comment, because as soon as an Ethernet address
> gets into a spanning tree it has become a locator (at level 2).

Even when it's not in a spanning tree. It is a locator when there are  
no physical loops as well as in TRILL.

Dino

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