From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Ido Schimmel <idosch@idosch.org>,
Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>,
Roopa Prabhu <roopa@nvidia.com>, Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>,
Marc Muehlfeld <mmuehlfe@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 05/10] docs: bridge: add STP doc
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2023 12:12:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231203121250.35110a99@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZVwd31WaAsy6Cmwy@Laptop-X1>
On Tue, 21 Nov 2023 11:02:55 +0800
Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 01:39:47PM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 05:31:40PM +0800, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> > > +STP
> > > +===
> >
> > I think it would be very good to say a few words about the user space
> > STP helper at /sbin/bridge-stp, and that the kernel only has full support
> > for the legacy STP, whereas newer protocols are all handled in user
> > space. But I don't know a lot of technical details about it, so I would
> > hope somebody else chimes in with a paragraph inserted here somewhere :)
>
> Hmm, I google searched but can't find this tool. Nikolay, is this tool still
> widely used? Do you know where I can find the source code/doc of it?
>
> Thanks
> Hangbin
Older one is here (no longer maintained):
https://github.com/shemminger/RSTP
Other version is here:
https://github.com/mstpd/mstpd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-03 20:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-17 9:31 [PATCH net-next 00/10] Doc: update bridge doc Hangbin Liu
2023-11-17 9:31 ` [PATCH net-next 01/10] net: bridge: add document for IFLA_BR enum Hangbin Liu
2023-11-18 17:45 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-11-21 3:28 ` Hangbin Liu
2023-11-21 16:21 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-11-23 14:07 ` Hangbin Liu
2023-11-19 16:46 ` Vladimir Oltean
2023-11-19 18:21 ` Andrew Lunn
2023-11-21 3:10 ` Hangbin Liu
2023-11-21 3:06 ` Hangbin Liu
2023-11-17 9:31 ` [PATCH net-next 02/10] net: bridge: add document for IFLA_BRPORT enum Hangbin Liu
2023-11-20 11:31 ` Vladimir Oltean
2023-11-21 3:10 ` Hangbin Liu
2023-11-17 9:31 ` [PATCH net-next 03/10] net: bridge: add document for bridge sysfs attribute Hangbin Liu
2023-11-17 9:31 ` [PATCH net-next 04/10] docs: bridge: Add kAPI/uAPI fields Hangbin Liu
2023-11-17 9:31 ` [PATCH net-next 05/10] docs: bridge: add STP doc Hangbin Liu
2023-11-20 11:39 ` Vladimir Oltean
2023-11-21 3:02 ` Hangbin Liu
2023-11-24 13:18 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2023-11-24 14:01 ` Hangbin Liu
2023-12-03 20:12 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2023-11-17 9:31 ` [PATCH net-next 06/10] docs: bridge: add VLAN doc Hangbin Liu
2023-11-17 9:31 ` [PATCH net-next 07/10] docs: bridge: add multicast doc Hangbin Liu
2023-11-17 9:31 ` [PATCH net-next 08/10] docs: bridge: add switchdev doc Hangbin Liu
2023-11-20 11:56 ` Vladimir Oltean
2023-11-17 9:31 ` [PATCH net-next 09/10] docs: bridge: add netfilter doc Hangbin Liu
2023-11-17 9:31 ` [PATCH net-next 10/10] docs: bridge: add other features Hangbin Liu
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