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.
Thanks, MT On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Srinivas M.A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > MT, > > The rstplib/ directory in Stephen's git repo is the RSTPLIB library > also available at sourceforge (http://rstplib.sourceforge.net/), but > with some small modifications for our purposes. > RSTPLIB itself is under LGPL, and if you intend to use it, it may be > better to start with the original version from sourceforge. > > I wrote another RSTP library to replace RSTPLIB and be compliant with > 802.1D-2004. I have not hosted that anywhere yet. That library is > licensed, together with the rest of my RSTP work, as GPL v >= 2. > > I will email that to you separately to avoid the attachment on the mailing > list. > > On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 10:57:42 -0400 > > "M T" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I am currently working on a project for work where I need to implement > RSTP > >> on non-Linux platforms (possibly ThreadX). I saw that there was a form > by > >> Mr. Srinivas Aji that implemented RSTP on Linux Bridge. Can someone > please > >> tell me if that fork is somewhere on the kernel.org git repository? > >> > >> I would like to use this work (without changing any code). I don't > >> understand the intricacies of GPL. > >> > >> * Can someone please point me to resources that say what I can and > cannot > >> use in my project? > >> * I cannot open source my project but I am willing to contribute back > any > >> changes I make to portions of linux bridge. I don't mind testing it on > linux > >> before submitting changes. Is this alright? > >> * Also, I just need to use portions of the project. For example, I only > care > >> about the state machines and not the interaction with the Linux OS. Can > I > >> just use bits and pieces of the linux bridge project? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> MT > > > > Did you look at > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shemminger/rstp.git > > > > It is GPL v2. > > _______________________________________________ > > Bridge mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge > > >
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