From: Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@amorsen.dk>
To: bridge@osdl.org
Subject: [Bridge] Re: PVST
Date: 27 Apr 2007 15:43:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3zm4udjbv.fsf@ursa.amorsen.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20070426210721.3fcf9f08@localhost.localdomain
>>>>> "SH" == Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> writes:
SH> Someone had sent some patches to do PVST, but PVST seems to be
SH> Cisco centric. and the patched version was too inflexible, so I
SH> didn't put it in mainline.
PVST is indeed Cisco centric. It is also the only way to stay sane if
you have several VLAN's.
However, isn't PVST the same as making a br100 out of eth0.100 and
eth1.100, and turning STP on? Hopefully the STP packets should then
emerge with a VLAN tag of 100.
/Benny
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-27 13:43 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
2007-04-27 4:53 ` Leigh Sharpe
2007-04-27 10:38 ` Leigh Sharpe
2007-04-27 13:43 ` Benny Amorsen [this message]
2007-04-27 18:48 ` [Bridge] PVST Stephen Hemminger
2007-04-27 23:19 ` Benny Amorsen
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