From: Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@amorsen.dk>
To: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se>
Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] [PATCH] [bridge] Add split horizon
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:58:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ab4dovgi.fsf@ursa.amorsen.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1244842010-24945-1-git-send-email-Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se> (Joakim Tjernlund's message of "Fri\, 12 Jun 2009 23\:26\:50 +0200")
Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se> writes:
> Currently the bridge does not impl. split horizon which will easily
> cause loops when 2 or more VLANs are added from the same physical interface.
Why would they cause loops? If your topology isn't loop free, run
spanning tree in the VLAN's. Yet another thing most hardware switches
can't do, incidentally.
/Benny
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-12 23:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-12 21:26 [Bridge] [PATCH] [bridge] Add split horizon Joakim Tjernlund
2009-06-12 23:58 ` Benny Amorsen [this message]
2009-06-13 15:03 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-06-13 15:12 ` Benny Amorsen
2009-06-13 15:45 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-06-13 16:56 ` Ross Vandegrift
2009-06-13 18:32 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-06-13 23:04 ` Ross Vandegrift
2009-06-14 8:44 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-06-13 16:57 ` Benny Amorsen
2009-06-13 17:06 ` Benny Amorsen
2009-06-13 18:37 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-06-13 18:51 ` Benny Amorsen
2009-06-13 15:57 ` richardvoigt
2009-06-13 16:30 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-06-14 2:18 ` richardvoigt
2009-06-14 2:36 ` richardvoigt
2009-06-13 4:39 ` richardvoigt
2009-06-13 13:07 ` Jonathan Thibault
2009-06-13 16:03 ` Joakim Tjernlund
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