Peter, First, my email address is dane@xxxxxxxxxxx The status of the BCP code is that it is used in some Applied Innovation products, but it is not a standard Linux feature because no one has ported it to the newest versions of the kernel and pppd. Also, a good fellow named Matthew N. Dodd was also in touch with me several months ago. I do not know the status of BCP in his company's products, but you should have no problem finding him with a web search engine. The BCP state machine for PPPD was already a couple years old when I was assigned to port it to our Linux-based products. I believe it is based on RFC 1638. It did not support STP at all, so I added both the old RFC 1638 "Spanning-Tree-Protocol" option and the newer RFC 2878 "Management-Inline" option. I do not remember making any other significant additions. Note that BCP is not directly relevant to the kernel bridge driver. BCP simply provides ethernet over PPP; whether to bridge or to route the resulting network interface is up to you. Regards, -- Dan Eble <dane@xxxxxxxxxx> _____ . Software Engineer | _ |/| Applied Innovation Inc. | |_| | | http://www.aiinet.com/ |__/|_|_| > -----Original Message----- > From: bridge-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:bridge-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Petter Larsen > Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 8:15 AM > To: dan@xxxxxxxxxx > Cc: bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; shemminger@xxxxxxxx > Subject: [Bridge] BCP status > > > Hello > > I can see that BCP is implemeted and posted as patches on the > mailinglist. > > Can you tell me the status of this work? > What is the status of getting this code integrated directly in the > vanilla kernel at kernel.org both 2.4.x and 2.6.x? > > Are the patches for pppd sent to the maintainers of the pppd? > > We are evaluating to use this under a XScale processor. > > Best regards > -- > Petter Larsen > cand. scient. > moreCom as > 913 17 222 >
