From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 13:42:09 -0700 > The forwarding table binary interface (my bad choice), only exposes the > port number of the first 8 bits. The bridge code was limited to 256 ports > at the time, but now the kernel supports up 1024 ports, so the upper bits > are lost when doing: > brctl showmacs > > The fix is to squeeze the extra bits into small hole left in data structure, > to maintain binary compatiablity. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx> At least you had somewhere to stick the high bits :) Applied, thanks. _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
