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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: Leigh Sharpe <lsharpe@pacificwireless.com.au>
Cc: bridge <bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Bridge] PVST
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:07:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070426210721.3fcf9f08@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <H00000690017cb31.1177634858.mail.pacificwireless.net.au@MHS>

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:47:42 +1000
"Leigh Sharpe" <lsharpe@pacificwireless.com.au> wrote:

> Hi All, 
> Does the current bridging code handle PVST properly, or just ordinary
> STP?

Ordinary, STP.  The 2.6.22 kernel will have all the bits to run STP in
user mode, and there is a version of RSTP in userspace see:
	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/shemminger/git/rstp.git

The RSTP code uses the rstplib and it knows about VLAN's, but the hooks
aren't there yet. Eventually, full MSTP 802.Q seems like a good idea.

Someone had sent some patches to do PVST, but PVST seems to be Cisco
centric. and the patched version was too inflexible, so I didn't put
it in mainline.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-27  4:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-27  0:47 [Bridge] PVST Leigh Sharpe
2007-04-27  4:07 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2007-04-27  4:53   ` Leigh Sharpe
2007-04-27 10:38     ` Leigh Sharpe
2007-04-27 13:43   ` [Bridge] PVST Benny Amorsen
2007-04-27 18:48     ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-04-27 23:19       ` Benny Amorsen

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