[Babel-users] Detecting bridges

Juliusz Chroboczek jch at pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr
Mon Dec 14 19:44:42 UTC 2015


Wrong thread?

> Is there a reliable way of determining that an underlying interface is
> a bridge?

https://github.com/jech/babeld/blob/master/kernel_netlink.c#L723

However, this only works for the Linux software bridge.  It doesn't work
for the hardware switches built into your favourite router, and of course
it doesn't work for switches connected over Ethernet, which is what the
WLAN-SI people are using.

-- Juliusz





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