[Bridge] bridge+filter+failover+rules&state sync+traffic shaping

Stephen Hemminger shemminger at osdl.org
Fri Jul 7 11:46:11 PDT 2006


On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 16:11:01 +0200
Tristan DEFERT <tristan.d at alphamosa.fr> wrote:

> hi list!
> i'm trying to find a convenient way to build a redundant filtering
> bridge under linux
> 
> i looked at carp project, but carp doesn't support bridge
> 
> now i thing the most appropriate way is using stp or rstp
> it seems that 2.6 kernel supports stp but what about rstp?

The 2.6.18 kernel has hooks to allow building STP protocols in user land.
There is a student working on RSTP as a Google Summer of Code project.



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