STP id selection

[Nikos Vassiliadis]

On 1/22/2012 9:29 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On 21 January 2012 05:37, Nikos Vassiliadis<nvass at gmx.com>  wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The current code in bridgestp.c finds the lower MAC address from all
>> available ethernets and uses it as the STP id. This is problematic when
>> more than one STP bridges participate in the same STP domain because
>> more than one bridges will use the same id. A similar fix was applied
>> to the OpenBSD version of the code[1]. Could you review the attached
>> patch?
>>
>> 1.http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-**bin/cvsweb/src/sys/net/**
>> bridgestp.c?rev=1.33<http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/net/bridgestp.c?rev=1.33>
>>
>> Thanks, Nikos
>>
>>
> .. that sounds sensible enough. Sure, please create a PR and then tell me
> what the ID is.
>
> I keep finding myself knee deep in the bridge code so this is something I
> can test out locally.
>

Here it is:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=164369

Thanks for looking into this,

Nikos