Re: brigde does not relay BPDU multicast pkgs

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Ross Vandegrift <ross@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 12/05/2009 15:06:22:
>
> 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...
>
> Ross

I just sent a patch "bridge: relay bridge multicast pkgs if !STP" to
the list. Let me know what you think.

 Jocke

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