On Sun, 9 May 1999, Lennart Buytenhek wrote:
> I've been hacking the ethernet bridging code present in stock
> 2.2 kernels. So far I've done multiple bridge port groups and
> dynamic adding/removing of devices.
> However, I'm clueless about submitting this to someone. Is there
> anyone out there willing to test my patches?
You could do worse than submit it to this list for comment...
> Is there anyone out there who can provide me an FTP home for
> this? (my ISP is a bit weird. they do not allow anon ftp access,
> but http access to my ~ mangles the file names. But visit
> http://www.dsv.nl/~buytenh if you want to try.)
I managed to work out the correct name and grab it, and it can now be
downloaded from the following URL:
ftp://www.MemAlpha.CX/pub/rhw/Linux/
> Also: what is the status of the current bridging code? No one
> seems to be maintaining it?? Why is it still experimental? Who
> uses it? etc. etc.
> Please CC your responses as I have only a prehistoric 2400 bps
> (dont laugh) :-(
Best wishes from Riley.
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| There is something frustrating about the quality and speed of Linux |
| development, ie., the quality is too high and the speed is too high, |
| in other words, I can implement this XXXX feature, but I bet someone |
| else has already done so and is just about to release their patch. |
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* ftp://ftp.MemAlpha.cx/pub/rhw/Linux
* http://www.MemAlpha.cx/kernel.versions.html
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