From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: skip forwarding delay if not using STP Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:07:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20110314.150708.116369703.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20110310075704.47f91bd5@nehalam> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: shemminger@vyatta.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:51275 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751659Ab1CNWGa (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:06:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110310075704.47f91bd5@nehalam> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Stephen Hemminger 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 Applied to net-2.6, thanks.