On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:54:49 -0300 "Alonso Enero V." <alonso.enero at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Friends! > > > > > Everything works ok in a laboratory environment, without the Cisco > Catalyst switch, but when link the #1 bridge to the Cisco Catalyst > respective port (the one with the needed VLAN), starts a horrible loop in > our LAN. I think something happens inside the Cisco switch that difficult > the STP traffic between the #1 bridge and out site 3. I heard of something > called bdpufilter, which is not set in out Catalyst switch, said our ISP. I > read a page were you give some suggestions of tweak the Linux Kernel that I > did (http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/bridge/2005-October/001116.html), but > still didn't tested, until have a clear idea of what happens inside the > Cisco switch. > > Did you enable STP, it is off by default? The version of Spanning Tree Protocol in Linux doesn't know about VLAN's, so that might be related. -- Stephen Hemminger <shemminger at osdl.org>
