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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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)
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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.