Re: 2.0.36 sends spanning-tree when bridge disabled

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 2 Feb 1999 18:36:18 +0000 (GMT)


> Alan - been hunting a problem for a week that has been taking down
> half our net. Bridge may be implicated. The common denominator is

Having read the bridge code I cant currently satisfy myself that it does
correctly shut up for all cases when its disabled.

> a NIC that has been put in promiscuous mode for some time

So it hears the helo stuff yes

> Any ideas? What should be looked at next.

Does it do it without bridging is the first question.

Alan

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