netdev - Re: Bridge extensions to iproute2

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Date:	Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:58:21 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com>
Cc:	Linux NetDev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: Bridge extensions to iproute2

On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:38:25 -0700
Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@...il.com> wrote:

> I can't quite seem to locate the bridge extensions to iproute2.
> 
> Mentioned for example at:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=b078f0df676233fc7ebc1ab270bd11ef5824bb64
> 
> I'm interested in finding a way to disable the stp and learning on a
> bridge and manually from userspace configuring the mac forwarding
> database.
> [for basically a userspace STP implementation, which wouldn't actually
> be a tree]
> 
> Can this be done?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Maciej

I will get back to these. There wasn't a motivation to go fast because
there wasn't a user of these. Now with fdb offload support they are needed.
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