>The bridge disables by port, each port is a network device. If the network devices >correctly implement carrier, then it can work with some down and some up. >It sounds like either they are all coming on one device, or the device driver is >buggy. Thanks for your speedy reply!! Much appreciated .. Before I dive in and start digging the source code, I want to confirm something. I am not too well versed on STP and bridge yet. Pardon me if this sounds weird or funny. 1. If STP is disabled, do these blocking/learning/forwarding... states still matter? I guess I need to keep the bridge constantly in the forwarding states. Any suggestions? 2. I also went back and read the spec one more time. It seems that the switch (LAN) interface uses a special tagging mode similar to 802.1Q to identify the port numbers. It is used for IGMP snooping and can be used by other applications as well. But I guess, the current bridge code doesn't support this? Or does it at least support the normal tagging mode? Sorry if this doesn't make any sense. Thanks!
