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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