From: Patrick Stuedi <stuedip@student.ethz.ch>
To: bridge@lists.osdl.org
Subject: [Bridge] Bridge port states
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:49:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41EE9D8E.20208@student.ethz.ch> (raw)
Hi all,
Can anyone explain me why we need all this per port state information. A
bridge port seems to be either in BR_STATE_LISTENING, BR_STATE_LEARNING
or BR_STATE_FORWARDING. I don't get it, thought the bridge is learning
from MAC addresses of the received packets, therefore while listening.
Why a bridge port distinquishes these states?
Thanx,
Patrick
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2005-01-19 17:49 Patrick Stuedi [this message]
2005-01-19 18:31 ` [Bridge] Bridge port states Stephen Hemminger
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