On Mon, 8 May 2006 10:15:47 +0200 Tadeusz Andrzej Kad?ubowski <yess@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thus wrote zhangliang: > > > > I think the prorosal is very good, I also want to do something for it, but > > first we should have some more knowledge about rstp, Now what only I can do > > is to read librstp, but I find that is so difficult to understand rstp, can > > u give some more info about it? > > Apart from reading librstp (which is considered to be messy etc.) we have two > main sources: > > a) The RSTP standard itself can be downloaded from the IEEE webpage for free. > It's code-number is 802.1d. Don't be put off by it's technical language. > > b) RSTP is based on STP. We have a decent working STP implementation inside the > Linux kernel - it can give a general idea of how to implement some parts of > RSTP. > There was also a version of RSTP done for ucLinux that I archived at: http://developer.osdl.org/shemminger/prototypes/rstp-2.4.zip But, I don't want RSTP to be in the kernel.
