From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: noel@burton-krahn.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, joe@perches.com, david.ward@ll.mit.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mrp: add periodictimer to allow retries when packets get lost
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 14:59:03 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130920.145903.1454447110808820874.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1379532280-11047-1-git-send-email-noel@burton-krahn.com>
From: Noel Burton-Krahn <noel@burton-krahn.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 12:24:40 -0700
> MRP doesn't implement the periodictimer in 802.1Q, so it never retries
> if packets get lost. I ran into this problem when MRP sent a MVRP
> JoinIn before the interface was fully up. The JoinIn was lost, MRP
> didn't retry, and MVRP registration failed.
>
> Tested against Juniper QFabric switches
>
> Signed-off-by: Noel Burton-Krahn <noel@burton-krahn.com>
David W., please review this patch.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-20 18:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-18 17:09 [PATCH] mrp: add periodictimer to retry lost packets Noel Burton-Krahn
2013-09-18 17:54 ` David Miller
2013-09-18 18:20 ` Joe Perches
2013-09-18 19:24 ` [PATCH 1/1] mrp: add periodictimer to allow retries when packets get lost Noel Burton-Krahn
2013-09-20 18:59 ` David Miller [this message]
2013-09-21 1:32 ` Ward, David - 0663 - MITLL
2013-09-23 20:54 ` David Miller
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