Gandi/bridge-utils: Linux bridge utils (obsolete and unmaintained)

This version of the bridge utilities is for Linux 2.4 and 2.6, it uses the sysfs interface if possible on Linux 2.6.

The code repository is: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shemminger/bridge-utils.git

Advantages of the new code are:

Support for multiple bridge port groups (i.e. multiple independent bridges in one machine).
Each bridge is seen as a logical device, which allows you to do firewalling between port groups for example.
Everything is dynamic; bridges are created dynamically using the userspace configuration tool, ports are 'enslaved' dynamically, etc.
It is being actively maintained.
It uses a hash table for MAC addresses, not an AVL tree.
It's small (currently 4 pages of i386 code) and modular.
The source isn't a mess.
It works as a module.

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions, please send email to the mailing list [email protected]

Files in this package:

AUTHORS Authors of this package

COPYING The GNU General Public License.

Makefile Recursive Makefile.

README This file.

brctl/ The userspace bridge configuration tool.

bridge-utils.spec A .spec file for Red Hat package building. "rpm -tb <tar.gz file>" ought to give you a .RPM file.

doc/ Some documentation files.

libbridge/ The bridge configuration interface library.

misc/ Miscellaneous utilities.