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From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: bridge get fdb by bridge device
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:37:03 -0500
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On 02/12/14 13:50, John Fastabend wrote:
> On 2/11/2014 1:04 PM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
>
> Because it is not the same type of object as the software bridge.
> Most notably it doesn't do learning.

This kept nagging at me.
Learning is optional for a bridge. So is flooding.
I think we got this right in recent kernels.

cheers,
jamal