Radia Perlman, "Algorhyme": I think that I shall never see A graph more lovely than a tree. A tree whose crucial property Is loop-free connectivity. A tree which must be sure to span So packets can reach every LAN. First the Root must be selected. By ID it is elected.

Least cost paths from Root are traced. In the tree these paths are placed. A mesh is made by folks like me Then bridges find a spanning tree. Read more about Radia's ode to spanning tree, and what led to to making profound networking solutions: zdnet.com/article/radia-…