ASIC based Spanning Tree

RouterOS General
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Is there any reason why mikrotik doesn’t expose at least RSTP in their switch chips? all of their switch products are severely hindered by lack of spanning tree.
RSTP is needed at a minimum in order to even have the mikrotik switch lineup as a true option. From what i see almost every chip in use supports at a minimum RSTP, how come this hasn’t been exploited in ROS ?

RSTP would make many happy in using the RB’s or CRS’s in their network, MSTP or newer would be a major benefit. This kind of feature cannot exist in the cpu for alot of the product line (crs’s specifically).

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Ummm, STP runs as a process (or processes) on the CPU of Cisco, Juniper and Extreme switches.

The process that handles the BPDU’S and decision making anyway. The blocking/forwarding of ports/vlan is done in hardware.

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fair call i guess, possibly not the best worded. The theory of utilizing the switching hardware to execute stp remains the same. there needs to be a an option which doesn’t incorporate a software bridge

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good to know it thanks for the info

then its no hardware limitation to mikrotik develop stp rstp??