[Bridge] BCP status

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:41:10 +0200
Petter Larsen <petter.larsen at morecom.no> wrote:

> Hello Stephen
> 
> > > There are several RFC that defines BCP.
> > > - RFC 1638
> > > - RFC 2878
> > > - RCF 3518
> > > 
> > > Which RFC have you used in your code?
> > 
> > Actually, none of the above. The code is based on the IEEE 802.1d
> > standard, and doesn't know anything about PPP or VLAN's (yet).
> 
> Ok. I can't understand that it does not know anything of PPP.
> The patches that Dan has submitted is patching the pppd and the
> ppp-driver in the Linux kernel.

What I meant, is that the bridge code itself doesn't have any special
knowledge about PPP.

> Are you the maintainer of this code? I thought that it was Dan Eble.
> Have you started the work of integrating this to the mainstream kernel,
> 2.4.x and 2.6.x?

I maintain the bridge code for 2.4 and 2.6.

> Best regards
> -- 
> Petter Larsen
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