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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: Bridge extensions to iproute2
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:58:21 -0700
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On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:38:25 -0700
Maciej =C5=BBenczykowski <zenczykowski@gmail.com> wrote:

> I can't quite seem to locate the bridge extensions to iproute2.
>=20
> Mentioned for example at:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=3Dlinux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=3Dco=
mmit;h=3Db078f0df676233fc7ebc1ab270bd11ef5824bb64
>=20
> 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 actuall=
y
> be a tree]
>=20
> Can this be done?
>=20
> Thanks,
>=20
> - 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 nee=
ded.