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why is spanning tree gaining so much interest recently?


No idea. It is old as shit and equally annoying. There are many reasons why we (architects) minimize L2 domains - namely because we can achieve re-route / convergence quicker with other protocols, with STP being the long pole. Hell, containers are just L3-L3 forwarding in a lot of cases - no L2 domain, conceptually.

TLDR: Spanning-Tree is the previous war. E-VPN + Modern L3 segmentation is the new way.




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