On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 19:24, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > This makes bridge port status reflect both the state of the interface > from software (up/down) and the carrier. It makes STP handle link failure > (cable breakage, etc). The original concept comes from a > Mark Ruijter <bridge@xxxxxxxxxxx> who implemented it differently. > My way is simpler and requires no polling. > > Obviously, this link state detection will only work if the network card > handles the events properly. > nice. Does this entrench STP further in the kernel? Still planning to move it out to user space? cheers, jamal
