Linux Ethernet Bridging - Apr 2007 - [Bridge] bridge+filter+failover+rules&state sync+traffic shaping

I am working on the same project. Any help is highly appreciated.

Kirt

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Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 10:11 AM
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Subject: [Bridge] bridge+filter+failover+rules&state sync+traffic shaping

hi list!
i'm trying to find a convenient way to build a redundant filtering
bridge under linux

i looked at carp project, but carp doesn't support bridge

now i thing the most appropriate way is using stp or rstp
it seems that 2.6 kernel supports stp but what about rstp?

I read some docs about stp, but they are rather outdated (2001 and
kernel 2.2)

there are several problems indeed: 
* rstp support
* fw state sync
* fw rules sync

did some of you resolve these problems?

any help appreciated, i'm rather confused between rstp, stp, ct_sync,
conntrackd ...

ps: next step will be trafic shaping / load balancing implementation
within this setup, again, any help appreciated!

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hi list!
i'm trying to find a convenient way to build a redundant filtering
bridge under linux

i looked at carp project, but carp doesn't support bridge

now i thing the most appropriate way is using stp or rstp
it seems that 2.6 kernel supports stp but what about rstp?

I read some docs about stp, but they are rather outdated (2001 and
kernel 2.2)

there are several problems indeed: 
* rstp support
* fw state sync
* fw rules sync

did some of you resolve these problems?

any help appreciated, i'm rather confused between rstp, stp, ct_sync,
conntrackd ...

ps: next step will be trafic shaping / load balancing implementation
within this setup, again, any help appreciated!

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 16:11:01 +0200
Tristan DEFERT <tristan.d@alphamosa.fr> wrote:
> hi list!
> i'm trying to find a convenient way to build a redundant filtering
> bridge under linux
> 
> i looked at carp project, but carp doesn't support bridge
> 
> now i thing the most appropriate way is using stp or rstp
> it seems that 2.6 kernel supports stp but what about rstp?
The 2.6.18 kernel has hooks to allow building STP protocols in user land.
There is a student working on RSTP as a Google Summer of Code project.