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

Tristan DEFERT tristan.d at alphamosa.fr
Tue Jun 27 07:11:01 PDT 2006


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?

I read some docs about stp, but they are rather outdated (2001 and
kernel 2.2)

there are several problems indeed: 
* rstp support
* fw state sync
* fw rules sync

did some of you resolve these problems?

any help appreciated, i'm rather confused between rstp, stp, ct_sync,
conntrackd ...

ps: next step will be trafic shaping / load balancing implementation
within this setup, again, any help appreciated!




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