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Jason Wright
Oct 6, 2000, 3:00:00 AM10/6/00
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On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 06:28:16PM -0600, Wozz wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I'm curious if there's any work going on to get spanning tree working
> with bridge(4). I've got some firewalls I've built as bridges, and now
> there's a desire to setup some sort of failover mechanism. I was hoping
> that rather than make the firewalls very complicated, bridge might be
> supporting STP sometime in the near future. As an alternative question,
> are there any good, proven layer 2 failover machanisms that folks have
> found work in this situation? Most everything I've seen involves layer 3
> tricks. Any thoughts?
>
As far as I've gotten with stp is in reading the standard... I believe
that only minimal modifications are necessary to support stp from userland,
but I have not started in on writing it. Any takers?
> Greetings all,
>
> I'm curious if there's any work going on to get spanning tree working
> with bridge(4). I've got some firewalls I've built as bridges, and now
> there's a desire to setup some sort of failover mechanism. I was hoping
> that rather than make the firewalls very complicated, bridge might be
> supporting STP sometime in the near future. As an alternative question,
> are there any good, proven layer 2 failover machanisms that folks have
> found work in this situation? Most everything I've seen involves layer 3
> tricks. Any thoughts?
>
As far as I've gotten with stp is in reading the standard... I believe
that only minimal modifications are necessary to support stp from userland,
but I have not started in on writing it. Any takers?
--Jason Wright
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