From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: Tony Jeffree <tony@jeffree.co.uk>
Cc: Brian Braunstein <brian@bristyle.com>,
Rajesh Mishra <rajesh_mish@yahoo.com>,
bridge@osdl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, mick_seaman@ieee.org
Subject: Re: 802.1D/Linux STP issue
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:15:28 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060915091528.7b5912e9@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.2.20060914174624.05055480@mail.expressoweb.co.uk>
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:51:50 +0100
Tony Jeffree <tony@jeffree.co.uk> 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.
>
> Regards,
> Tony
Work is already in progress to do RSTP (by several different people),
but the effort is going slowly.
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2006-09-14 1:06 ` 802.1D/Linux STP issue Stephen Hemminger
2006-09-14 16:51 ` Tony Jeffree
2006-09-14 21:21 ` Andy Gospodarek
2006-09-15 0:15 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2006-09-15 7:34 ` Tony Jeffree
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