On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:24:16 +0100
Jos? J. Gonz?lez Alonso <jjgonzalez@igalia.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am very interested in your project. Concretely, I am interested in the
> possibility of extending your implementation so that it fulfills the
> specifications of 802.1G. I read this specifications and they seem
> "simple" extensions of 802.1D standard.
>
> what do you think about?
> would be it very hard?
> Is there any documentation of your code?
> (to read the code directly is being a little tedious)
>
> Regards,
> Jos? J. Gonz?lez Alonso
>
There have been several discussions about this, but very little in concrete
work.
The bridge mailing list might have others that have done something.
A long term goal is to move all the discovery and spanning tree out of the
kernel
and into a user space process. This user space process would use netlink to
see interface state changes and as API to the bridge driver. Also a new
implementation
in user space could use the standard LLC interface to read bridge spanning tree
traffic.
Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of time to dedicate to new feature work
right now,
especially when 2.6 is trying to get released.