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		An interactive introduction to the spanning tree protocol (bernat.ch)
		4 points by vbernat 17 days ago \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

vbernat 17 days ago [–]

Author here. This article features interactive demonstrations of the spanning tree protocol (an old protocol to detect and fix loops in Ethernet networks) using MSTPD (user-space implementation for Linux) compiled to WebAssembly with Emscripten.

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