Dear Readers, I face a problem where I have not found an appropriate answer, yet. I have a dedicated ring topology in a network. To simply manage opening the ring we can use STP and its derivatives (e.g. mstpd). I also found that there is support for Media Redundancy Protocol (MRP) in the Linux kernel which may fit my needs better. However, I'm wondering how to use it since the bridge commands mentioned in the Patch have not been implemented yet, although the first patch set was more than 3 years back. Moreover, in addition to automatic rerouting via other nodes in case of topology changes, I need information about changes in the topology itself, even if the route is currently not used. Is there any option provided in SW or even in the Kernel to achieve this goal. It is a kind of predictive maintenance. Thanks in advance. André
