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Date:      Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:24:14 +0000 (UTC)
From:      "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
To:        Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MFC rstp
Message-ID:  <20070118082139.W82671@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070118035748.GE12548@heff.fud.org.nz>
References:  <20070118035748.GE12548@heff.fud.org.nz>

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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.

-- 
Bjoern A. Zeeb				bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT



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