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by Sami_Lehtinen 4306 days ago
There's already IEEE_802.1aq which is optimizing routing and allowing multiple parallel routing paths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.1aq

Lecture well worth of watching: Frank Fitzek, Aalborg University: Network Coding for Future Communication and Storage Systems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaJYWrYKVRo

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this is a layer 2 protocol and has nothing to do with routing, which is layer 3 in the OSI model