VLANs and GVRP on Linux: quickly from specification to prototype using the click router platform
Pim Van Heuven, Frederic Van Quickenborne, Filip De Greve, Brecht Vermeulen, Steven Van den Berghe, Filip De Turck, Piet Demeester · 2003
This paper presents how a working prototype of a VLAN (Virtual LAN) and GVRP (Generic VLAN Registration Protocol) aware Ethernet switch for Linux can be built using a “Writing code is good but integrating existing code is much better ” approach. The paper is split into two parts. The first part describes the development of the signalling component of the network: the