From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: 802.1D/Linux STP issue Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:15:28 +0900 Message-ID: <20060915091528.7b5912e9@localhost.localdomain> 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Brian Braunstein , Rajesh Mishra , bridge@osdl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, mick_seaman@ieee.org Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:33946 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932165AbWIOAPo (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:15:44 -0400 To: Tony Jeffree 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, 14 Sep 2006 17:51:50 +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. > > Regards, > Tony Work is already in progress to do RSTP (by several different people), but the effort is going slowly.