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From: Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@amorsen.dk>
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:58:53 +0200
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Subject: Re: [Bridge] [PATCH] [bridge] Add split horizon
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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