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Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 22:04:33 +0300
From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@idosch.org>
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Subject: Re: [Bridge] [PATCH 1/1] bridge: remove BR_GROUPFWD_RESTRICTED for
 arbitrary forwarding of reserved addresses
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To: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: David Gstir <david@sigma-star.at>, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>, nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, roopa@cumulusnetworks.com, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, bernhard.thaler@wvnet.at, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>

On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 08:54:08PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> So the only option is having a bridge and transport STP via tc-mirred
> or patching the bridge code (what we do right now).

And I vote for the first option. I understand it involves more typing,
but I see no reason to push more complexity into the kernel - and break
standards - when you can relatively easily accomplish the same thing in
other ways.

Adding Nik and Roopa who now maintain the bridge code and should
eventually decide about this.