From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: shemminger@vyatta.com
Cc: nicolas.2p.debian@gmail.com, adamm@zombino.com,
kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, pekkas@netcore.fi, jmorris@namei.org,
yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kaber@trash.net,
bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
andy@greyhouse.net, fubar@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: control carrier based on ports online
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:29:08 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110314.142908.179940791.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110307103406.27330529@nehalam>
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 10:34:06 -0800
> This makes the bridge device behave like a physical device.
> In earlier releases the bridge always asserted carrier. This
> changes the behavior so that bridge device carrier is on only
> if one or more ports are in the forwarding state. This
> should help IPv6 autoconfiguration, DHCP, and routing daemons.
>
> I did brief testing with Network and Virt manager and they
> seem fine, but since this changes behavior of bridge, it should
> wait until net-next (2.6.39).
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks Stephen.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-14 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-06 5:18 [PATCH 1/2] Issue NETDEV_CHANGE notification when bridge changes state Adam Majer
2011-03-06 5:20 ` [PATCH 2/2] Retry autoconfiguration on interface after NETDEV_CHANGE notification Adam Majer
2011-03-06 5:31 ` [PATCH 1/2] Issue NETDEV_CHANGE notification when bridge changes state Adam Majer
2011-03-06 6:43 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-03-06 8:03 ` Adam Majer
2011-03-06 17:45 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-03-07 0:25 ` Adam Majer
2011-03-07 6:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-03-07 7:44 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-03-07 18:34 ` [PATCH] bridge: control carrier based on ports online Stephen Hemminger
2011-03-07 20:48 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-03-07 21:44 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-03-07 21:51 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-03-08 1:08 ` Adam Majer
2011-03-14 21:29 ` David Miller [this message]
2011-03-06 18:01 ` [PATCH 1/2] Issue NETDEV_CHANGE notification when bridge changes state Jan Ceuleers
2011-03-09 15:09 ` Américo Wang
2011-03-09 16:44 ` Adam Majer
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