On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:26:55 +0200 Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 09:21:48AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > The 2.4 kernel is missing all the hooks to provide user level STP. > > The startup is not the big issue, the real problem is that the > > kernel doesn't have hooks to control port state from user space, > > and the spanning tree packets may not be visible to user space > > application either. > > > > Sigh, 2.4 is at least 5 years old by now. > > Hello, I'm going to start backport of rstpd to kernel 2.4 series and > I'd like having some advices from you. > > Regarding the bridge controls I can add to the current sysfs interface > the old ioctl interface as the old bridge-utils did. Do you think I > can contribute to the rstpd code in order to support such interface or > you have no interest in doing it? I won't put in 2.6 code. If you wan to put in 2.4, contact the 2.4 kernel maintainer. > The problem of controlling the port state from user space can be > resolved by adding the missing netlink commands into the kernel code. > > In the end, spanning tree packets may be captured as tcpdump do, is > that right? That is how I did it since RSTP needs to see ethernet headers. _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
