On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 10:23:31AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Doing research on another problem, I noticed that this would > break user mode spanning tree (RSTP) code. > > The daemon assumes that bridge is promicious mode and therefore > will receive all link-level multicast packets. Since you have to play with the new learning/flooding options to get the non promisc behaviour, can't we just say "don't do it then" short term, and fix applcations long term?