Hello I would like to ask if this recommendation is still in place for IPQ-6010 chipsets: If the CAP is hAP ax2 or hAP ax3, it is strongly recommended to enable RSTP in the bridge configuration, on the CAP As far as I recall, it was to disable HW offloading, that was not at that time available fo…

[image] MichalPospichal: Do I still need use RSTP on cAPax to disable HW offloading? Yes, you still need that. The switch chip in the cAP ax, which is classified as IPQ-PPE , still requires turning on RSTP because none of the hardware offload features are working: Currently, HW offloaded br…

Yes, hw offloading is still not officially supported. RSTP is generally harmless, but if you want to disable RSTP, you can do so, but then you should didable hw offload manually for every bridge->port individually. The messages you see are simply a result of MT adding more verbose logging to RSTP. …

Thank you both for reply. Yes, I know those are debug messages, I have logging enabled for “bridge”, when I added “!debug” to it the messages stopped of course. But they were not appearing in the log pre-7.20 even when debug was enabled, so I was not sure if something changed about it.

It's actually documented in the 7.20 release note: [image] V7.20 [stable] is released! bridge - added verbose STP debug logging (rx/tx BPDU, edge-port and port-role transitions, FDB flush);

Thanks, I have missed it. It is not easy to keep track of all the changes when they are fragmented in all in separate posts for every sub-release, it would be nice to have everything in one place somewhere, at least for each major release version.

It's literally in the changelog. On the official website. I get it that the changelogs are long, but there are only around 3-4 major releases per year. If you want to keep up, it's well worth taking the 10 minutes to read them.

cAPax - RSTP still recommened?

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It's actually documented in the 7.20 release note: