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

[Tristan DEFERT]

I suggest that anyone interested in building a failover filtering bridge
with rules and connection state synching / QoS+TC to join me about
building this project: if we are enough with good skills we can do great
job.

What we have:
* STP protocol is already implemented
* Traffic shaping and QoS with iptables + cbq (or another traffic
shaper) should be fine in this context (needs to be tested)

What we need:
* an elegant way of synching rules and conntrack
* testers and volunteers !
* documentation

What should be nice:
* load balancing

Any idea or contributor welcome!

Feel free to contact me, and list me your resources & skills !

Le vendredi 07 juillet 2006 à 16:36 -0400, Shankar_Natarajan at emc.com a
écrit :
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bridge-bounces at lists.osdl.org
> [mailto:bridge-bounces at lists.osdl.org]
> > On Behalf Of Stephen Hemminger
> > Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 11:46 AM
> > To: Tristan DEFERT
> > Cc: bridge at lists.osdl.org
> > Subject: Re: [Bridge] bridge+filter+failover+rules&state sync+traffic
> > shaping
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Is there a customary wary of posting/watching status/progress on this
> RSTP work? How is the work progressing? Any dates that can be shared?
> 
> I'd like to volunteer my team to be an early consumer and test the
> implementation when it is ready. Possible? 
> 
> Thanks,
> Shankar
> 
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