From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: David Logan <djlogan2.dl@gmail.com>
Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] Help with Ubuntu + bridge + tap + qemu + Windows
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 14:27:08 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160202142708.512d1cc8@samsung9> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6B2C2A75-2FC1-4938-B8FD-19D9325583A4@gmail.com>
On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 13:04:48 -0700
David Logan <djlogan2.dl@gmail.com> wrote:
> oops. Wrong machine. The uname -a really is
>
> Linux server2 3.16.0-59-generic #79~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 18 15:41:27 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> David Logan
>
>
I suspect you have a loop and STP is detecting that the STP packets being sent
out one of the ports on the bridge are showing back up on another port on the bridge.
The way bridging works you need to make each port on the bridge is a separate L2 domain;
otherwise you create a loop.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-02 3:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-01 19:51 [Bridge] Help with Ubuntu + bridge + tap + qemu + Windows David Logan
2016-02-01 20:04 ` David Logan
2016-02-02 3:27 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2016-02-02 4:48 ` David Logan
2016-02-02 5:34 ` Srinivas M.A.
2016-02-02 5:47 ` David Logan
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2016-02-02 23:33 gilberto dos santos alves
2016-02-03 0:51 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-02-03 4:47 ` David Logan
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