Hello,
I noticed that with beta2 you enabled STP on the bridges per default. Since 'till now Linux is only capable of doing standard spanning tree, could we please have that as an option to turn off again? Depending on the switch, if they see a legacy STP-BPDU on a port, they fall back to legacy STP entirely, which disrupts traffic flow. Yes, most enterprise switches can do this on a per port basis, but there are some that don't. (NetG... anyone? ;-) )
Also, since we can't tune STP options from the GUI (as of now), our little server might even be elected to be the root bridge, which is not that bad, as long as it keeps running, but once you reboot a new election might be triggered: again: possible network disruption.
Regards,
Marc
I noticed that with beta2 you enabled STP on the bridges per default. Since 'till now Linux is only capable of doing standard spanning tree, could we please have that as an option to turn off again? Depending on the switch, if they see a legacy STP-BPDU on a port, they fall back to legacy STP entirely, which disrupts traffic flow. Yes, most enterprise switches can do this on a per port basis, but there are some that don't. (NetG... anyone? ;-) )
Also, since we can't tune STP options from the GUI (as of now), our little server might even be elected to be the root bridge, which is not that bad, as long as it keeps running, but once you reboot a new election might be triggered: again: possible network disruption.
Regards,
Marc