Joakim Tjernlund/Transmode wrote on 10/05/2009 19:47:19:
>
> Stephen Hemminger <shemmin...@vyatta.com> wrote on 08/05/2009 18:02:26:
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> > On Fri, 8 May 2009 10:33:37 +0200
> > Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernl...@transmode.se> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hi List
> > >
> > > We have noticed that when STP is off in the linux bridge, it won't
> > > relay STP pkts received from other bridges.
> > > This feels like a bug(a bad one too). I hope this isn't
> > > intentional behaviour?
> > >
> > >  Jocke
> > >
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> > It is a debatable whether this is correct behaviour.
> > My current opinion is that it needs to forward STP packets if
> > STP is off. This would allow for loop detection by other bridges
> > doing STP.
>
> Exactly, I had a look at the bride code and it wasn't obvious
> too me where to add the code to make this happen. Any pointers?

Looking into this I got a question:
Should the bridge forward the whole bridge multicast group except PAUSE
or only the STP multicast address?

 Jocke

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