Added bridge mailing list to RSTP discussion. On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 11:29:42 -0400 "Miller Seth-G19426" <seth.miller@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > That's an approach we were considering as well using > http://sourceforge.net/projects/rstplib/. Was this what you were > planning to start with or did you want to pull the code out of the > kernel? We're willing to work with you getting the user space app > working and any of the infrastructure changes as well. The plan would be > to put all this work back into the community. We're also interested in > adding 802.1s Multiple spanning tree. > > > -----Original Message----- > Actually, I would like to make RSTP (and all the spanning tree > protocols) > a user space utility. There are some infrastructure changes necessary > to propagate sufficient information to do it. I was going to leave existing STP in kernel for now, but not enable it. For 2.6.17, I made sure that STP packets are received so application can receive them (via LLC). The next part would be adding a netlink interface to bridge module to report and modify: * interface added/deleted from bridge * interface status change (carrier up/down) * interface forwarding enable/disable * forwarding table flush by interface.
