[Bridge] Re: Google SoC proposal (Tadeusz Andrzej Kad?ubowski)

[Bridge] Re: Google SoC proposal (Tadeusz Andrzej Kad?ubowski)

[zhangliang]

I think the prorosal is very good, I also want to do something for it, but
first we should have some more knowledge about rstp, Now what only I can do
is to read librstp, but I find that is so difficult to understand rstp, can
u give some more info about it?

Thanks.

Re: [Bridge] Re: Google SoC proposal (Tadeusz Andrzej Kad?ubowski)

[Tadeusz Andrzej Kadłubowski]

Thus wrote zhangliang:
> 
> I think the prorosal is very good, I also want to do something for it, but
> first we should have some more knowledge about rstp, Now what only I can do
> is to read librstp, but I find that is so difficult to understand rstp, can
> u give some more info about it?

Apart from reading librstp (which is considered to be messy etc.) we have two
main sources:

a) The RSTP standard itself can be downloaded from the IEEE webpage for free.
It's code-number is 802.1d. Don't be put off by it's technical language.

b) RSTP is based on STP. We have a decent working STP implementation inside the
Linux kernel - it can give a general idea of how to implement some parts of
RSTP.

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Re: [Bridge] Re: Google SoC proposal (Tadeusz Andrzej Kad?ubowski)

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Mon, 8 May 2006 10:15:47 +0200
Tadeusz Andrzej Kadłubowski <yess@hell.org.pl> wrote:

> Thus wrote zhangliang:
> > 
> > I think the prorosal is very good, I also want to do something for it, but
> > first we should have some more knowledge about rstp, Now what only I can do
> > is to read librstp, but I find that is so difficult to understand rstp, can
> > u give some more info about it?
> 
> Apart from reading librstp (which is considered to be messy etc.) we have two
> main sources:
> 
> a) The RSTP standard itself can be downloaded from the IEEE webpage for free.
> It's code-number is 802.1d. Don't be put off by it's technical language.
> 
> b) RSTP is based on STP. We have a decent working STP implementation inside the
> Linux kernel - it can give a general idea of how to implement some parts of
> RSTP.
> 

There was also a version of RSTP done for ucLinux that I archived at:
	http://developer.osdl.org/shemminger/prototypes/rstp-2.4.zip

But, I don't want RSTP to be in the kernel.