From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: shemminger@vyatta.com
Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: skip forwarding delay if not using STP
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:07:08 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110314.150708.116369703.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110310075704.47f91bd5@nehalam>
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 07:57:04 -0800
> If Spanning Tree Protocol is not enabled, there is no good reason for
> the bridge code to wait for the forwarding delay period before enabling
> the link. The purpose of the forwarding delay is to allow STP to
> learn about other bridges before nominating itself.
>
> The only possible impact is that when starting up a new port
> the bridge may flood a packet now, where previously it might have
> seen traffic from the other host and preseeded the forwarding table.
>
> Includes change for local variable br already available in that func.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Applied to net-2.6, thanks.
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2011-03-10 15:57 [PATCH] bridge: skip forwarding delay if not using STP Stephen Hemminger
2011-03-14 22:07 ` David Miller [this message]
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