From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Karl Hiramoto <karl@hiramoto.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: loosing connections on bridge topology changes
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 10:44:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090513104449.49b1df6a@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A0AE3A5.20100@hiramoto.org>
On Wed, 13 May 2009 17:13:41 +0200
Karl Hiramoto <karl@hiramoto.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a user space application, that puts eth0 into bridge br0. At
> this moment all connections seem frozen. Telnet, HTTP, and NFS.
>
> For development i have nfs root fs.
>
> There is a ioctl() that does the equivalent of "brctl addif br0 eth0"
>
> That cuts all the connections for a few seconds.
>
> nfs: server 192.168.10.51 not responding, still trying
> br0: topology change detected, propagating
> br0: port 1(eth0) entering forwarding state
> nfs: server 192.168.10.51 not responding, still trying
> nfs: server 192.168.10.51 OK
> nfs: server 192.168.10.51 OK
>
>
> Then everything is OK..
>
> Is there anyway i can fix this, so my applicaion goes ahead at full speed?
>
>
> using libnl i tried flushing the ARP cache on all devices, but it didn't
> seem to help.
>
>
> Thanks
> --
>
> Karl.
turn off forwarding delay (unless you are using STP).
brctl setfd br0 0
--
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-13 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-13 15:13 loosing connections on bridge topology changes Karl Hiramoto
2009-05-13 17:44 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20090513104449.49b1df6a@nehalam \
--to=shemminger@vyatta.com \
--cc=karl@hiramoto.org \
--cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).