From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 4 19:02:52 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DBD416A41F for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 19:02:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mwlucas@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org) Received: from bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org (bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org [198.22.63.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 122F143D46 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 19:02:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mwlucas@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org) Received: from bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org (mwlucas@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j74J2nNT046290; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 15:02:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id j74J2nja046289; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 15:02:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 15:02:49 -0400 From: "Michael W. Lucas" To: Brooks Davis Message-ID: <20050804190249.GA46277@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> References: <20050804165437.GA45366@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <20050804181646.GB7946@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <20050804182607.GA46067@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <20050804190145.GD7946@odin.ac.hmc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050804190145.GD7946@odin.ac.hmc.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Spam-Score: (0) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 Cc: "Michael W. Lucas" , net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rstp & FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 19:02:52 -0000 On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 12:01:45PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > 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: > > > > > > > > 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?" > > 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. one2many sure looks like it, I'll give it a try. ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ "The cloak of anonymity protects me from the nuisance of caring." -Non Sequitur