On Wed, 6 Sep 2017 02:47:03 +0200 Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> wrote:
> > The third and last issue will be explained in a followup email. > > Hi DSA hackers > > So there is the third issue. It affects just DSA, but it possible > affects all DSA drivers. > > This patchset broken broadcast with the Marvell drivers. It could > break broadcast on others drivers as well. > > What i found is that the Marvell chips don't flood broadcast frames > between bridged ports. What appears to happen is there is a fdb miss, > so it gets forwarded to the CPU port for the host to deal with. The > software bridge when floods it out all ports of the bridge. > That sounds like a good feature. There environments where you want to disable broadcast between certain ports. It lets the bridge get at the traffic for firewall filtering.
