From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:11:53 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger Message-ID: <20070411101153.4392857c@freekitty> In-Reply-To: <20070411102717.tfctoalywwwk8skg@webmail.technikum-wien.at> References: <20070411102717.tfctoalywwwk8skg@webmail.technikum-wien.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Bridge] RSTP implementation List-Id: Linux Ethernet Bridging List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: tw05k121@technikum-wien.at Cc: bridge@linux-foundation.org, "Aji_Srinivas@emc.com" 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