Bridging and stp question

Bruce Simpson bms at incunabulum.net
Fri May 29 10:51:46 UTC 2009


Jedrzej Kalinowski wrote:
> pluknet pisze:
>   
>> 2009/5/28 Jedrzej Kalinowski <kalinoj1 at iem.pw.edu.pl>:
>>     
>>> Is there any way to configure the bridge to add stp protocol to any
>>> added (via ifconfig bridgeX addm ifX) member interface - so to change
>>> the default behaviour? Or specifying it explicitly is unavoidable?
>>>
>>>       
>> Let me clarify some. Did I understand you correctly
>> that `ifconfig bridge0 addm ifX stp ifX` doesn't fit you needs?
>>
>>     
>
> Well, it works fine.
>
> It just would be more comfortable for me to do just:
> ifconfig bridge0 addm ifX
>
> and have bridge0 configured to add stp proto to each member interface as
> a default action.
>
> It would allow me to configure spanning tree on specific bridge
> globally, with no need to do it for each member interface.
>   

Can't you just put this command in a qemu-ifup script?
If not, can you clarify why it does not work for you?

thanks,
BMS



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