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Selecting a preferred path
When the meshing domain is established, the switches in that domain use the
meshing protocol to gather information about the available paths and to determine
the best path between switches.
To select the preferred path, the meshed switches use the following criteria to
evaluate ports in each possible path:
 Outbound queue depth, which is the outbound traffic the switch is waiting to
transmit from a port.
 Inbound queue depth, which is the inbound traffic the switch is waiting to
process on a port.
 Port speed, based on factors such as 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps, 1000 Mbps (or 1
Gbps), 10 Gbps,
full-duplex, or half-duplex
 Number of dropped packets
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