Peter,
First, my email address is dane@aiinet.com.
The status of the BCP code is that it is used in some Applied Innovation
products, but it is not a standard Linux feature because no one has
ported it to the newest versions of the kernel and pppd. Also, a good
fellow named Matthew N. Dodd was also in touch with me several months
ago. I do not know the status of BCP in his company's products, but you
should have no problem finding him with a web search engine.
The BCP state machine for PPPD was already a couple years old when I was
assigned to port it to our Linux-based products. I believe it is based
on RFC 1638. It did not support STP at all, so I added both the old RFC
1638 "Spanning-Tree-Protocol" option and the newer RFC 2878
"Management-Inline" option. I do not remember making any other
significant additions.
Note that BCP is not directly relevant to the kernel bridge driver. BCP
simply provides ethernet over PPP; whether to bridge or to route the
resulting network interface is up to you.
Regards,
--
Dan Eble <dane@aiinet.com> _____ .
Software Engineer | _ |/|
Applied Innovation Inc. | |_| | |
http://www.aiinet.com/ |__/|_|_|
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bridge-bounces@lists.osdl.org
> [mailto:bridge-bounces@lists.osdl.org] On Behalf Of Petter Larsen
> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 8:15 AM
> To: dan@aiinet.com
> Cc: bridge@lists.osdl.org; shemminger@osdl.org
> Subject: [Bridge] BCP status
>
>
> Hello
>
> I can see that BCP is implemeted and posted as patches on the
> mailinglist.
>
> Can you tell me the status of this work?
> What is the status of getting this code integrated directly in the
> vanilla kernel at kernel.org both 2.4.x and 2.6.x?
>
> Are the patches for pppd sent to the maintainers of the pppd?
>
> We are evaluating to use this under a XScale processor.
>
> Best regards
> --
> Petter Larsen
> cand. scient.
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