[Bridge] RSTP implementation

[Bridge] RSTP implementation

[shenry82]

Hi,

    I'm a student in a trainning period and I have to implement a RSTP in a embedded Linux. I wonder if someone knows if it exists a version of bridge-utils who can made this or if it's possible to modify my actual version (bridge-utils-1.0.6) to do that and how ?

Thanks in advance.

PS : sorry for my english it's not my natural language ^^.
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[Bridge] RSTP implementation

[tw05k121]

Hi,

for a universitary project, RSTP (802.1D-2004, Ch. 17) shall be 
implemented on an embedded linux device.

My questions: were there any further developments since the version 
from Marco Goetze, which was available for download on 
http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/Talk:Bridge ?
On the site is announced that it is unusable and that some pieces are 
missing. Is there any documentation about 'why' it's unusable and 
'what' is missing so somebody (like me) might be able to finish the 
work?


thanks in advance for any info!

Mario Gartner

Re: [Bridge] RSTP implementation

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:27:17 +0200
tw05k121@technikum-wien.at wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> for a universitary project, RSTP (802.1D-2004, Ch. 17) shall be 
> implemented on an embedded linux device.
> 
> My questions: were there any further developments since the version 
> from Marco Goetze, which was available for download on 
> http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/Talk:Bridge ?
> On the site is announced that it is unusable and that some pieces are 
> missing. Is there any documentation about 'why' it's unusable and 
> 'what' is missing so somebody (like me) might be able to finish the 
> work?
> 
> 
> thanks in advance for any info!
> 
> Mario Gartner

We are close to having a user level RSTP..  
Aji Srinivas did a version, but it had a number of things I wanted to fix
before releasing. The kernel pieces are in the pre 2.6.22 tree. And
the user-level code is in git tree:

	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shemminger/rstp.git

IT DOESN'T WORK YET.

-- 
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>