Re: brigde does not relay BPDU multicast pkgs

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On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Ross Vandegrift <ross@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:43:17AM +0200, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
>> Looking into this I got a question:
>> Should the bridge forward the whole bridge multicast group except PAUSE
>> or only the STP multicast address?
>
> If you're implementing that, it should only forward the STP address.
>
> 802.1X and LACP will be very suprised (and very broken) when their
> PDUs start being forwarded to entities on other bridges...

They break when there's a simple hub on the network?

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