rstp & FreeBSD

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Thu Aug 4 18:17:04 GMT 2005


On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 12:54:37PM -0400, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
> 
> I'm sure we support rstp Ethernet for redundancy, but damned if I can
> find the documentation.  Any suggestions?

I don't think we have any RSTP code in the tree.  We recently aquired an
STP implementation in if_bridge, but not RSTP.

It's not immediatly clear to me how a host would use RSTP for
redundency.  I suppose you could use a virtual interface and two ports
that pretended to be switch ports that talked RSTP?  If RSTP were added
to if_bridge, I think that would be easy to do.

-- Brooks

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