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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>,
	Dushan Tcholich <dusanc@gmail.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [Bridge] [RFC] bridge: STP timer management range checking
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:25:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19455.1220235930@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:43:09 PDT." <20080831104309.780cc01f@extreme>

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On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:43:09 PDT, Stephen Hemminger said:

> Warning: this may cause user backlash since apparently working but standards
>   conforming configurations will get configuration errors that they didn't
>   see before.

Did you mean "apparently working but *non*-standards conforming"?

Other than that, seems to be a sane application of "Be conservative in what you
send".  Our network is some 30K cat-5 ports, 1100 switches, 1300 wireless
access points, and we appreciate it every time somebody makes things more
bulletproof.  And yes, we prefer things to out-and-out *fail* rather than
run in a wonky configuration - hard failures usually get fixed in a few
minutes, wonkiness can drag on for months of mystifying symptoms...


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-01  2:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2008-08-31 17:43                 ` [Bridge] [RFC] bridge: STP timer management range checking Stephen Hemminger
2008-08-31 22:02                   ` Alan Cox
2008-08-31 23:29                     ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-09-01  8:38                       ` Alan Cox
2008-09-02 16:40                         ` Rick Jones
2008-09-02 23:41                           ` David Miller
2008-09-03  0:00                             ` Rick Jones
2008-09-01  2:25                   ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2008-09-03  0:28                   ` David Miller
2008-09-04 22:47                   ` [Bridge] [PATCH] bridge: don't allow setting hello time to zero Stephen Hemminger
2008-09-08 20:46                     ` David Miller
2008-09-08 21:35                       ` Dushan Tcholich
2008-09-08 22:33                         ` Stephen Hemminger

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