On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:43:09 -0700 Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The Spanning Tree Protocol timers need to be set within certain boundaries > to keep the internal protocol engine working, and to be interoperable. > This patch restricts changes to those timers to the values defined in IEEE 802.1D > specification. Why do we care ? You have to be the network administrator to set values, there are cases you may want to be out of the spec and you are privileged. The kernel does need to stop things being done which are fatal but running around restricting privileged administrators who have the ability to bring the network down anyway isn't its job. Seems bogus extra code to me - stops things working that should be allowed too. _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
