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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: Mark Smith <lk-netdev@lk-netdev.nosense.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>,
	Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
	bonding-devel@lists.sf.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bonding ALB sends bogus packets
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:48:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A72314C.9080007@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090731090658.db36b555.lk-netdev@lk-netdev.nosense.org>

Mark Smith wrote:
> 
> ETH_P_LOOP should probably have been avoided, as "LOOP" or "loopback"
> is commonly used to refer to the Ethernet Configuration Testing
> Protocol (google search for "Ethernet Loop protocol"). 

I wonder how that relates to linkloop:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/linkloop/

http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/opensuse/factory/x86_64/usr_share_doc_packages_linkloop_Tree.html

> 
> I'd suggest not using any form of ARP for this purpose. It'd place an
> IPv4 requirement on the bonded interface, and various "empty" ARP
> frames have meaning e.g. duplicate address detection. 802.2 test frames
> or the original Ethernet V2.0 Configuration Testing Protocol have been
> used for this bridge table address refresh purpose in the past.

I can never remember if linkloop uses XID or Test frames :(

rick jones

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-30 23:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-30 20:06 Bonding ALB sends bogus packets Stephen Hemminger
2009-07-30 20:28 ` Jay Vosburgh
2009-07-30 20:35   ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-07-30 23:36     ` Mark Smith
2009-07-30 23:48       ` Rick Jones [this message]
2009-07-31  1:30         ` Mark Smith

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