From: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
To: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Q: State of Linux RSTP support
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 14:23:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54230C3A.6030802@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <542306A2.7020008@imap.cc>
On 09/24/2014 02:00 PM, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
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> According to Stephen Hemminger's presentation at
> http://www.slideshare.net/shemminger/new-bridge (which seems to be the
> most recent information available on the topic) the in-kernel bridging
> code only provides STP. RTSP is (should be) provided by a user space
> daemon, rtspd. However, none of the distributions I routinely use
> provide that daemon. Sourceforge has a project named rstpd but it
> seems to be inactive.
>
> A search for RSTP in the current git tree finds
>
> - - in net/bridge/br_netlink.c, a comment:
> /* Binary compatibility with old RSTP */
>
> - - in net/bridge/br_private.h, an enum constant for struct net_bridge
> member stp_enabled:
> BR_USER_STP, /* new RSTP in userspace */
>
> but nothing in, say, the Documentation folder.
There is https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/shemminger/rstp.git/
but it's 3 years old. Don't know if Stephen has anything newer.
-vlad
>
> Any pointers?
>
> aTdHvAaNnKcSe,
> Tilman
>
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2014-09-24 18:00 Q: State of Linux RSTP support Tilman Schmidt
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