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Eliminate the “M” Bit
Currently the “M” or “multi-destination” bit in the TRILL Header means that the “egress RBridge nickname” field is actually the root of the distribution tree.
This is logically unnecessary:
M = 0 only for known unicast and core IS-IS frames.
M = 1 for all other frames

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