Traveling East-West Might Get A Little Easier: Highlights from the TRILL RFC5556

TRILL is proposed with no technical implementation details in RFC5556 and can be encapsulated thusly: Shove the logic of a layer 3 routing protocol down into layer 2. Why? So that switches can bridge traffic via the most efficient path while still avoiding topology loops.

FCoE and the Return of Spanning Tree

One of the most amusing parts about Fibre Channel over Ethernet(FCoE) is that Spanning Tree is making a triumphant comeback. And I am talking a Roman style parade after the gates to the city have been built and lined with gold.