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@xxxxxxxx> 05/18/04 09:24PM >>> On Tue, 18 May 2004 21:18:01 +0530 "Kishore A K" <kishoreak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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, > Kishore Probably just a stupid bug.