What do you mean by "handle" packets? Drop them? Log them? Run the spanning tree algorithm? The bridge driver in net/bridge/* can do IEEE 802.1D, so that would be a good place to begin your investigation. -- Dan Eble <dane@aiinet.com> _____ . Software Engineer | _ |/| Applied Innovation Inc. | |_| | | http://www.aiinet.com/ |__/|_|_| > -----Original Message----- > From: LIZ JOSEPH [mailto:LIZJ@nestec.net] > Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 2:36 AM > To: linux-net@vger.kernel.org > Subject: STP handler > > > Hi, > > We want to develop a Linux kernel protocol module for > handling STP packets. > Can somebody give us leads on how to progress? How do we > decide if it is an > STP packet? On the basis of destination MAC address alone? > > Thanks in advance. > Regards, > Liz Joseph - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
