1This version of the bridge utilities is for Linux 2.4 and 2.6, 2it uses the sysfs interface if possible on Linux 2.6 3 4 5--------------------------- 6Lennert Buytenhek rewrote the linux bridging code 7because the old code was a big mess and nonextensible. 8 9The new code is published at: 10 http://bridge.sourceforge.net/ 11 12 13 14Advantages of the new code are: 15- Support for multiple bridge port groups (i.e. multiple independent 16 bridges in one machine). 17- Each bridge is seen as a logical device, which allows you to do 18 firewalling between port groups for example. 19- Everything is dynamic; bridges are created dynamically using the 20 userspace configuration tool, ports are 'enslaved' dynamically, etc. 21- It is being actively maintained. 22- It uses a hash table for MAC addresses, not an AVL tree. 23- It's small (currently 4 pages of i386 code) and modular. 24- The source isn't a mess. 25- It works as a module. 26 27 28If you have any comments, questions or suggestions, please send email to 29the mailing list bridge@osdl.org 30-------------------------- 31 32Files in this package: 33 34AUTHORS Authors of this package 35 36COPYING The GNU General Public License. 37 38Makefile Recursive Makefile. 39 40README This file. 41 42brctl/ The userspace bridge configuration tool. 43 44bridge-utils.spec 45 A .spec file for Red Hat package building. "rpm -tb 46 <tar.gz file>" ought to give you a .RPM file. 47 48doc/ Some documentation files. 49 50libbridge/ The bridge configuration interface library. 51 52misc/ Miscellaneous utilities. 53