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.