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From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
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Subject: Re: MFC rstp
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On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Andrew Thompson wrote:

Hi,

> I have a patch here to MFC the rstp code to RELENG_6. It should be all
> fine and dandy as for API but will cause the default spanning tree
> version to change from stp to rstp.
>
> Is it ok to change the protocol version for the STABLE users (rstp is
> backwards compatable with stp) or should it still default to stp and
> require the OP to enable rstp.
>
> Any opinions?

I think you should leave stp as default and have the user configure rstp
if (s)he thinks (s)he needs it.

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