On Thu, 2 May 2013 21:37:58 +0300 "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? It will work as long as non-promiscious mode turns on all-multicast in driver.
