From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: PATCH: br_stp.c:271: ignoring BPDUs if cost goes up Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:11:36 -0700 Message-ID: <20060830121136.0e96246e@localhost.localdomain> References: <44F5D334.7050205@bristyle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, rajesh_mish@yahoo.com Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:29850 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751337AbWH3TLl (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:11:41 -0400 To: Brian Braunstein In-Reply-To: <44F5D334.7050205@bristyle.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:04:36 -0700 Brian Braunstein wrote: > PATCH > problem at: br_stp.c:271 > problem: ignoring BPDUs if cost goes up > > i was refered to email these addresses by the bridging code author. > > please see the full problem description and patch at: > http://mesh.calit2.net/calmesh/one/linux_kernel_modifications/bridge_ignoring_bpdus/ > > if you would like to have it attached or inline with the email instead > let me know. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html That code has been around a long time and probably came from pseudo-code in earlier version of the 802.1d standard. The current version of the standard has switched to RSTP and now has unreadable railroad track state machine diagrams, rather than pseudo-code. So it is hard to check if your fix is correct or not. -- Stephen Hemminger