Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 12:01:45 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rstp & FreeBSD Message-ID: <20050804190145.GD7946@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050804182607.GA46067@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> References: <20050804165437.GA45366@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <20050804181646.GB7946@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <20050804182607.GA46067@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>
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--Km1U/tdNT/EmXiR1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 02:26:07PM -0400, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 11:16:46AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 12:54:37PM -0400, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > > >=20 > > > I'm sure we support rstp Ethernet for redundancy, but damned if I can > > > find the documentation. Any suggestions? > >=20 > > I don't think we have any RSTP code in the tree. We recently aquired an > > STP implementation in if_bridge, but not RSTP. > >=20 > > It's not immediatly clear to me how a host would use RSTP for > > redundency. I suppose you could use a virtual interface and two ports > > that pretended to be switch ports that talked RSTP? If RSTP were added > > to if_bridge, I think that would be easy to do. >=20 > I think I'm asking my question wrong, my apologies. Let me try again: >=20 > "I want to have my FreeBSD server plugged into two switches, so that > if one switch fails I get uninterrupted service. The switches fail > over with RSTP. I'm sure people do this, which man page should I > read?" I'm not sure. You might be able to do it with ng_one2many. I think if_bridge (plus RSTP) might actually be the closest to what you want, but it's not available yet. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --Km1U/tdNT/EmXiR1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC8mYZXY6L6fI4GtQRAoBLAJ9WhWNoHbi1yAc3JLgl1xeeLCgR4wCdHWj4 AvCxzwbZNCe7bp7zlwFEcGs= =DlTA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Km1U/tdNT/EmXiR1--
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