From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 07:57:04 -0800 > If Spanning Tree Protocol is not enabled, there is no good reason for > the bridge code to wait for the forwarding delay period before enabling > the link. The purpose of the forwarding delay is to allow STP to > learn about other bridges before nominating itself. > > The only possible impact is that when starting up a new port > the bridge may flood a packet now, where previously it might have > seen traffic from the other host and preseeded the forwarding table. > > Includes change for local variable br already available in that func. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx> Applied to net-2.6, thanks. _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
