# Linux BRIDGE-STP-HOWTO

### Uwe Böhme

Johann-Heinrich-Abt-Straße 7
95213
Münchberg
Germany
+49/9251 960877
+49/9251 960878
uwe@bnhof.de

### Lennert Buytenhenk

bridge code maintainer and developer
gnu.org

buytenh@gnu.org

Release v0.04

Copyright © 2000 by Uwe Böhme

Revision History
Revision v0.04 | 11 January 2001 | Revised by: U.B.
Changed Lennert`s Bridge Homepage URL; added NIC to list.
Revision v0.03 | 17 July 2000 | Revised by: U.B.
Overwork pdf. Download links in doc.
Revision v0.02 | 16 July 2000 | Revised by: U.B.
Fixed broken graphics in html dsl. Prepared pdf. Typos.
Revision v0.01 | 25 June 2000 | Revised by: U.B.
Changes name from BRIDGE-HOWTO to BRIDGE-STP-HOWTO (avoid interference with BRIDGE-HOWTO by Christopher Cole) and kill version 1.xx. Lennert Buytenhenk announced as coauthor.
Revision v0.00 | 01 June 2000 | Revised by: U.B.
Initial Release.

About The Linux Modular Bridge And STP

> This document describes how to setup a bridge with the recent kernel patches and brctl utility by Lennert Buytenhek. and tries to explain about the STP implementation in this code.

With developer kernel 2.3.47 the new bridging code is part of the mainstream. There are patches for stable kernels 2.2.14 to 2.2.16, where each is also available as a ipchains-patch.

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