[Bridge] RSTP location and GPL info

Srinivas M.A. srinivas.aji at gmail.com
Thu Oct 2 09:28:38 PDT 2008


On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 7:08 PM, M T <m.t.linuxbridge at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks a lot for the response.
>
> Can you please tell me how far is the original RSTP implementation from
> 802.1D-2004? The only reason I ask is to understand if the original library
> can be modified to suit my purposes.

RSTPLIB is based on something pretty close to the draft standard
802.1w-2001. (RSTPLIB is a bit older than 2001, but it is mostly the
same.) This is reasonably interoperable with other RSTP
implementations. The 802.1D-2004 bridge standard incorporates the
802.1w-2001 standard but with some further changes.


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