From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: arvid.brodin@xdin.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, shemminger@vyatta.com, joe@perches.com,
jboticario@gmail.com, balferreira@googlemail.com,
elias.molina@ehu.es
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] net/hsr: Add support for the High-availability Seamless Redundancy protocol (HSRv0)
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 23:20:44 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131103.232044.43459849021471837.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <527167C7.4030305@xdin.com>
From: Arvid Brodin <arvid.brodin@xdin.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 21:10:47 +0100
> High-availability Seamless Redundancy ("HSR") provides instant failover
> redundancy for Ethernet networks. It requires a special network topology where
> all nodes are connected in a ring (each node having two physical network
> interfaces). It is suited for applications that demand high availability and
> very short reaction time.
>
> HSR acts on the Ethernet layer, using a registered Ethernet protocol type to
> send special HSR frames in both directions over the ring. The driver creates
> virtual network interfaces that can be used just like any ordinary Linux
> network interface, for IP/TCP/UDP traffic etc. All nodes in the network ring
> must be HSR capable.
>
> This code is a "best effort" to comply with the HSR standard as described in
> IEC 62439-3:2010 (HSRv0).
>
> Signed-off-by: Arvid Brodin <arvid.brodin@xdin.com>
Applied, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-04 4:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-30 20:10 [PATCH v6] net/hsr: Add support for the High-availability Seamless Redundancy protocol (HSRv0) Arvid Brodin
2013-10-30 20:15 ` Joe Perches
2013-11-04 19:34 ` Arvid Brodin
2013-11-04 22:03 ` Joe Perches
2013-11-04 4:20 ` David Miller [this message]
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