[Bridge] Re: Google SoC proposal (Tadeusz Andrzej Kad?ubowski)

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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.

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