Hi Stephan, But is it not a serious bug cause it is going to the affect the topology of the entire network on to which the bridge is connected.. Regards, Kishore>>> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> 05/18/04 09:24PM >>>On Tue, 18 May 2004 21:18:01 +0530 "Kishore A K" <kishoreak@myw.ltindia.com> wrote:> Hi Stephen, > > I have been studying the bridge source & analyzing its flow by putting printks > at various places. I am using kernel 2.6.6. I found something really strange > happening.. > > I have setup a bridge with two ports. I havent enabled stp on the bridge. Which > I have confirmed by doing a "brctl show" also. However from the printks I find > that BPDUs are getting generated & sent on the ports. Isnt this not supposed to > happen? > > Regards, > KishoreProbably just a stupid bug.
Hi Stephen, I have been studying the bridge source & analyzing its flow by putting printks at various places. I am using kernel 2.6.6. I found something really strange happening.. I have setup a bridge with two ports. I havent enabled stp on the bridge. Which I have confirmed by doing a "brctl show" also. However from the printks I find that BPDUs are getting generated & sent on the ports. Isnt this not supposed to happen? Regards, Kishore
On Tue, 18 May 2004 21:18:01 +0530 "Kishore A K" <kishoreak@myw.ltindia.com> wrote:> Hi Stephen, > > I have been studying the bridge source & analyzing its flow by putting printks > at various places. I am using kernel 2.6.6. I found something really strange > happening.. > > I have setup a bridge with two ports. I havent enabled stp on the bridge. Which > I have confirmed by doing a "brctl show" also. However from the printks I find > that BPDUs are getting generated & sent on the ports. Isnt this not supposed to > happen? > > Regards, > KishoreProbably just a stupid bug.
On Wed, 19 May 2004 11:09:58 +0530 "Kishore A K" <kishoreak@myw.ltindia.com> wrote:> Hi Stephan, > > But is it not a serious bug cause it is going to the affect the topology of the > entire network on to which the bridge is connected.. > > Regards, > KishoreWell if the network has other bridges, then you really need to run STP anyway. Otherwise, the bridges won't know about each other at all and the potential exists for all sorts of nasty things like loops and dead connections.