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From: Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault@free.fr>
To: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: [Bridge] bridge protocol family
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 21:48:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4831D97F.1010907@free.fr> (raw)

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Hello there,

I've been studying routing protocol during my studies, like OSPF, BGP, 
EGP, IGP, RIP, OLSR...... All those protocols are based on the routing 
table concept and each of them has its own way to compute routing table 
which is then used by the Linux kernel. But this is for IPv4 (or IPv6), 
ie layer 3.

I'm new at layer2 and I've read 802.1D-2004, learning STP and RSTP. I'd 
like to know if there are some other protocols (be it standard or 
proprietary) that achieve this goal of connecting layer2 cloud. Is there 
a concept of routing table at layer2?

Regards,
Benoit

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             reply	other threads:[~2008-05-19 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-19 19:48 Benoit PAPILLAULT [this message]
2008-05-19 23:12 ` [Bridge] bridge protocol family Malcolm Scott
2008-05-30 13:32   ` [Bridge] New Custom Protocol on Ethernet Layer Zoran s
2008-05-30 15:14     ` Stephen Hemminger

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