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Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 14:26:07 -0400
From: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
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Cc: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, net@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: rstp & FreeBSD
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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:
> > 
> > I'm sure we support rstp Ethernet for redundancy, but damned if I can
> > find the documentation.  Any suggestions?
> 
> I don't think we have any RSTP code in the tree.  We recently aquired an
> STP implementation in if_bridge, but not RSTP.
> 
> 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.

I think I'm asking my question wrong, my apologies.  Let me try again:

"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?"

Thanks,
==ml


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