On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:24:16 +0100 José J. González Alonso <jjgonzalez@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi! > > I am very interested in your project. Concretely, I am interested in the > possibility of extending your implementation so that it fulfills the > specifications of 802.1G. I read this specifications and they seem > "simple" extensions of 802.1D standard. > > what do you think about? > would be it very hard? > Is there any documentation of your code? > (to read the code directly is being a little tedious) > > Regards, > José J. González Alonso > There have been several discussions about this, but very little in concrete work. The bridge mailing list might have others that have done something. A long term goal is to move all the discovery and spanning tree out of the kernel and into a user space process. This user space process would use netlink to see interface state changes and as API to the bridge driver. Also a new implementation in user space could use the standard LLC interface to read bridge spanning tree traffic. Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of time to dedicate to new feature work right now, especially when 2.6 is trying to get released.
