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Why bridges are slow to start forwarding Temporary loops might cause meltdown Can’t (except in certain special cases, like a port to an endnode) know if turning on a link might cause temporary loop Simple solution: wait before turning on link, so other bridges can turn off links first People want instant failover (but they don’t want meltdowns) |