From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: Alex Zeffertt <ajz@cambridgebroadband.com>
Cc: "Majjari Vikram(TLS-ESG), Bangalore" <Majjari.Vikram@hcl.in>,
bridge@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] bridge_list orphans in linux-2.4
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:31:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061215103130.237b58c6@freekitty> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4582B8DF.2010702@cambridgebroadband.com>
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:01:51 +0000
Alex Zeffertt <ajz@cambridgebroadband.com> wrote:
> Hi Majjari,
>
> We've solved the problem now. It turned out that the bridge_list in the
> kernel was not being corrupted. The problem was actually that
> "brctl show" was only returning the last 32 bridges created. We upped
> this to 2048, which required a brctl change and also a kernel module change.
>
> The patch is attached.
>
> HTH,
>
> Alex
Actually, I would prefer NOT to send this upstream for later 2.4 releases because
the 2.4 code is in long term stability mode, and support >32 bridges is an enhancement,
not a bug.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-15 18:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2006-12-15 15:01 ` [Bridge] bridge_list orphans in linux-2.4 Alex Zeffertt
2006-12-15 18:24 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-12-15 18:31 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2006-12-18 10:01 ` Alex Zeffertt
2006-09-21 13:42 Alex Zeffertt
2006-09-21 22:56 ` Stephen Hemminger
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