Re: [Rstplib-users] Query

[Alex R. <ar...@mr...>]

I dare to recommend strongly that version instead, which is
based on "http://sourceforge.net/projects/rstplib/", consider the
release rstplib.1.2.beta.05c.tar.gz
Let me know if you don't have it, I send it you directly.
Regards, Alex

On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 08:50 -0500, James Carlson wrote:
> 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.
>