> -----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 > _______________________________________________ > Bridge mailing list > Bridge at lists.osdl.org > https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
