Re: Introducing open source MSTP daemon
From: yao zhao <hidden>
Date: 2012-02-01 16:30:13
nice job! Will try! more work needed in kernel! yao On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Vitalii Demianets [off-list ref] wrote:
Good day! I am happy to introduce open source MSTP daemon: http://sourceforge.net/p/mstpd Of course due to current limitations of the Linux bridge code, namely: - no integration with VLAN code - no support of different FIDs (independent learning) - no support of the per-MSTI port states this daemon is not very useful for the bare Linux box. It can work only with support of specialized driver which talks to the MSTP-aware hardware (most of the today ethernet switching parts are MSTP-aware and support FIDs and per-MSTI port states). Nevertheless I hope to find some interest in my work. Maybe it will stimulate in some way the integration of the Linux bridge and VLAN code, who knows? From the IEEE point of view they are already merged, see 802.1Q-2005 which incorporates previous editions of 802.1q and 802.1d and 802.1w/s. Once again, all interested are welcome. Please review, criticize, test, modify, patch, deploy and do other things :) Any kind of feedback is extremely welcome :) -- Vitalii Demianets -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html