Subject: Re: llc needs namespace awareness asap, was Re: Patch fixing STP if bridge in non-default namespace.

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2023 15:37:11 -0700

On Tue, 11 Jul 2023 22:06:45 -0500
Harry Coin <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Andrew, the only RTSP / STP provider I know of is open-vswitch and their 
> docs (last I read them) provide the caution to use veth pairs to 
> namespaces, but not run their daemon there--- and fair enough as no 
> multicast llc would make it to that code in a namespace as currently 
> kernel implemented.

There are at least two other userspace STP providers.

Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol
https://github.com/mstpd/mstpd

And older (mostly for demo) code
https://github.com/shemminger/RSTP