Re: [Rstplib-users] Query

[James C. <jam...@su...>]

Abhishek Mathur writes:
> 
> Can I get some more documents on the reliability of the code for RSTP
> available here. I wish to know whether it's the complete code or just a
> patch with some specific implementation .I wish to know about how
> actually the components of the code are divided and if the code can be
> directly use withouht any modifications on a fresh switch o configure
> RSTP.

We're using it for our RBridges project at Sun.  So far, it seems the
answer is "yes."

The code predates 802.1D-2004, and seems to be based mostly on 802.1z.
The state machines are subtly different, and that's made some of the
work we've done a bit more difficult.  It also took a small amount of
work to turn it into a real library (it tries to call functions in the
main program directly rather than using callbacks).  If you're at all
interested, you can browse the code here:

  http://hg.opensolaris.org/sc/src/rbridges/rbridges-on/usr/src/lib/librstp/

Or access via mercurial:

  ssh://an...@hg...//hg/rbridges/rbridges-on

We have our prototype out in external conformance testing now.  If
that turns up any issues, we'll find fixes and report those back.

> I would be grateful  to you all if I can somehow get an open source for
> MSTP( Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol ) too.

We haven't found any yet, but we may end up doing it ourselves
eventually.

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