On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:19:06 +0200 "Alexander (Sasha) Sirotkin" <sasha.sirotkin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Suppose there is a unidirectional traffic only (for instance UDP) to one of > the devices connected to a bridge. At the beginning, the bridge will learn > the location of this device from gracious ARP. However, after the timeout > the bridge will forget this information and since there is no traffic from > that device (remember, the traffic is unidirectional, i.e. to the device > only) it will start flooding... and will continue to do so forever. > > I have a feeling that I must be not the first person to encounter this > problem. Any ideas ? > You should check the 802.1d standard. -- Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@xxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
