From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: shemminger@vyatta.com
Cc: andreiw@motorola.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4] Bridge: Always send NETDEV_CHANGEADDR up on br MAC change.
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:45:01 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110809.214501.695156031507081645.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110808131230.7f4b4d99@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net>
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 13:12:30 -0700
> On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 16:04:10 -0500
> Andrei Warkentin <andreiw@motorola.com> wrote:
>
>> This ensures the neighbor entries associated with the bridge
>> dev are flushed, also invalidating the associated cached L2 headers.
>>
>> This means we br_add_if/br_del_if ports to implement hand-over and
>> not wind up with bridge packets going out with stale MAC.
>>
>> This means we can also change MAC of port device and also not wind
>> up with bridge packets going out with stale MAC.
>>
>> This builds on Stephen Hemminger's patch, also handling the br_del_if
>> case and the port MAC change case.
>>
>> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrei Warkentin <andreiw@motorola.com>
>
> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Applied, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-10 4:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-05 1:55 Fix bridge MAC change notification Andrei Warkentin
2011-08-05 1:55 ` [PATCH] Bridge: Always send NETDEV_CHANGEADDR up on br MAC change Andrei Warkentin
2011-08-05 2:11 ` Always send NETDEV_CHANGEADDR up Andrei Warkentin
2011-08-05 2:11 ` [PATCHv2] Bridge: Always send NETDEV_CHANGEADDR up on br MAC change Andrei Warkentin
2011-08-05 2:17 ` Always send NETDEV_CHANGEADDR up Andrei Warkentin
2011-08-05 2:17 ` [PATCHv3] Bridge: Always send NETDEV_CHANGEADDR up on br MAC change Andrei Warkentin
2011-08-05 4:36 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-08-05 6:13 ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-08-05 21:04 ` Always send NETDEV_CHANGEADDR up Andrei Warkentin
2011-08-05 21:04 ` [PATCHv4] Bridge: Always send NETDEV_CHANGEADDR up on br MAC change Andrei Warkentin
2011-08-08 20:12 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-08-09 5:12 ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-08-10 4:45 ` David Miller [this message]
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