From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:27:00 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger Message-ID: <20070322112700.5bbc6ba1@freekitty> In-Reply-To: <4602BB71.2010002@mindspeed.com> References: <4602BB71.2010002@mindspeed.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Bridge] I want to RTFM -- so where's the FM? List-Id: Linux Ethernet Bridging List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: wade.guthrie@mindspeed.com Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:22:57 -0700 Wade Guthrie wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for documentation about the internals of the bridging > software. We're putting together a new chip that incorporates, among > other things, a core for a managed switch and a processor that will be > running Linux. I wanted to have the Linux code (among other things) > field SNMP requests and configure the managed switch. I'm hoping that > it's as simple as writing a driver for the managed switch and > registering it with the bridging code. Is there any documentation on > the internals of the bridging software or do I have to paw through the > source? > > Thanks! > Obvious places: Linux net wiki http://linux-net.osdl.org Documentation/networking/* in kernel sources manual pages in bridge-utils -- Stephen Hemminger