On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 18:02:03 +0800 "He, Zhenjie" <hezhenjie at gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you for your reply. > On 8/9/06, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger at osdl.org> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 14:05:03 +0800 > > "He, Zhenjie" <hezhenjie at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi, Stephen/all, > > > > > > The situation I meet is similar as this. > > > > > > I want to capture BPDU packets go through the Linux bridge, > > > > Simpler just to use something like AF_PACKET, or tools like pcapture? > > > I intend to use a Linux bridge with stp enable in the internal to generate > BPDU packets, and use ethereal or tcpdump to capture packets in the other > side. > Is there other ways to generate BPDU? You could use LLC to send/receive spanning tree BPDU's. Or you could use the Ethernet tap driver (tuntap) and attach a pseudo-device to a bridge.
