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2007 Apr 18
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[Bridge] Bridge code enhancement (link state detection) and bug fix. (patches included).
...As soon as the Cisco
switch comes back alive a loop is created in the network for a short but
long enough period of time. :-(
To fix this I added link state monitoring to the code. This is only
active when stp is turned on. When a link fails the bridge port goes to
blocked and then to the new 'nolink' status. The bridge-utils patch
makes it possible to see the status with brctl showstp.
I did encounter a second problem when writing the link monitoring code.
When you add a vlan interface like eth0.10 then it's not possible to
obtain link state information from this interface.
The fix I...