From: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 09:11:58 -0700
> If bridge is configured with no STP and forwarding delay of 0 (which > is typical for virtualization) then when link starts it will flood all > packets for the first 20 seconds. > > This bug was introduced by a combination of earlier changes: > * forwarding database uses hold time of zero to indicate > user wants to always flood packets > * optimzation of the case of forwarding delay of 0 avoids the initial > timer tick > > The fix is to just skip all the topology change detection code if > kernel STP is not being used. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]> Also applied, thanks Stephen. To avoid confusion, I did apply these to net-2.6 since they are fixes. Thanks! _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
