Re: Multicast snooping fixes and suggestions

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Feb 23 2011 - 23:46:56 EST


On 02/23/2011 08:04 PM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 07:16:17PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>
>> Are these packets likely to address that situation (or am I just plain
>> doing something stupid)?
>
> No these patches deal with IPv6 multicast support in the bridge and
> are not related to your problem.
>
> If you're using the bridge for virtualisation and you know that
> you don't have a loop in your setup, then one option would be to
> disable STP on your bridge.

Hi,

I have disabled STP on the bridge; it doesn't change the behavior.

-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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