rstp & FreeBSD

[Brooks Davis]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 02:26:07PM -0400, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 11:16:46AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I think I'm asking my question wrong, my apologies.  Let me try again:
> 
> "I want to have my FreeBSD server plugged into two switches, so that
> if one switch fails I get uninterrupted service.  The switches fail
> over with RSTP.  I'm sure people do this, which man page should I
> read?"

I'm not sure.  You might be able to do it with ng_one2many.  I think
if_bridge (plus RSTP) might actually be the closest to what you want,
but it's not available yet.

-- Brooks

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