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An interactive tour of the spanning tree protocol
- jenders 6d agoFantastic
- vbernat 6d agoIf you like watching the first animation, you can get it for the other diagrams with a well-known video game code.
- deburo 6d agoNice! Although not a fan of the sticky animation blocks since they take so much vertical space.
- bobbob1921 4d agoI actually think they’re pretty nice even when I was viewing it on a restricted resolution device like an iPad mini, it’s not apparent at first but he does include a check box that allows you to turn off the stickiness of the animations, it’s a few lines or paragraphs below the first animation in the body
- illamint 6d agoThis blog is an unbelievable gold mine of information about networking, Linux, and other concepts. It's what I wish my own blog was in my head, if I could somehow summon the time and creativity.
- stmw 6d agoAlso a good opportunity to read about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia_Perlman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia_Perlman in general (she is mentioned in the blog of course).
- verst 5d agoI met her once in the Bay Area on BART as she was going from the airport to Berkeley to give a lecture (I admit I did not know who she was at the time). We had a nice 1 hour conversation. She's incredibly smart and humble.
- Hikikomori 6d agoMy old enemy.
- EvanAnderson 5d agoIt's a nice article and the animations are functional and aesthetically pleasing. I used to teach this on a whiteboard at my local community college. This is much slicker (and involves a lot less scribbling and erasing). Spanning tree is an elegant protocol for the constraints it was invented under. Radia Perlman's poem-- particularly the last two stanzas-- also makes me very happy. Aside: I enjoy the typographical error in the paragraph under the "Topology change notification" heading: When a link fails, a connected fridge reachable...