On 1/27/20 12:04 PM, Allan W. Nielsen
wrote:
> How do you handle the 'headless chicken' scenario? User space tells
> the port to start sending MRP_Test frames. It then dies. The hardware
Andrew, I am a bit confused here - maybe I missed an email-thread, I'm sorry then.
In previous emails you and others talked about hardware support
to send packets (inside the switch). But somebody also talked
about data-plane and control-plane (about STP in-kernel being a
bad idea), and that data-plane is in-kernel, and control plane is
a mrp-daemon (in user space).
And in my mind, the "hardware" you mention is a frame-injector and
can be both real hardware and a driver in the kernel.
Do I see it right?
I agree, we need to find a solution to this issue.> continues sending these messages, and the neighbours thinks everything
> is O.K, but in reality the state machine is dead, and when the ring
> breaks, the daemon is not there to fix it?
