From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Gospodarek Subject: Re: 802.1D/Linux STP issue Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:21:43 -0400 Message-ID: <20060914212142.GB12665@gospo.rdu.redhat.com> References: <45076B88.80104@bristyle.com> <6.0.1.1.2.20060913075410.04133280@mail.expressoweb.co.uk> <45088D29.30501@bristyle.com> <20060914100619.76cb1828@localhost.localdomain> <6.0.1.1.2.20060914174624.05055480@mail.expressoweb.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Stephen Hemminger , Brian Braunstein , Rajesh Mishra , bridge@osdl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, mick_seaman@ieee.org Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:22215 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751178AbWINVVv (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:21:51 -0400 To: Tony Jeffree Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.2.20060914174624.05055480@mail.expressoweb.co.uk> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 05:51:50PM +0100, Tony Jeffree wrote: > Steve/Brian - > > You've probably seen Mick Seaman's comments on this by now - as he points > out in his email, tinkering with existing STP implementations is not likely > to be a rewarding exercise and I would encourage you not to go there. > > I would suggest that it would be a much more valuable exercise for the > Linux community to replace the existing STP support with an implementation > of RSTP. > While we are at it can we rip it out of the kernel and develop a user-space daemon that does it instead? Setting the spanning-tree state of a port could be done with a simple ioctl (well not too simple because it would be good to support multiple STP instances so someone could code up 802.1w support and the kernel interface would already be there). Thoughts?