Bug#736336: STP is partly to blame

2020-05-06 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi Stephen, > STP requires that device goes into listen only mode when it starts up > (forwarding delay). > IPv6 requires Duplicate Address Detection when the device starts up. > > Therefore DAD interacts badly with STP. excuse me if I don’t buy your “therefore”. You say that as if one could no

Bug#736336: STP is partly to blame

2014-01-22 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 04:03:20 -0800 Matthew King wrote: > Further digging reveals that STP is causing or triggering the fault. If the > bridge_stp option is disabled (and thus `brctl stp bar on` is never called), > then the bridge retains its link-local address as expected. > > Matthew STP req

Bug#736336: STP is partly to blame

2014-01-22 Thread Matthew King
Further digging reveals that STP is causing or triggering the fault. If the bridge_stp option is disabled (and thus `brctl stp bar on` is never called), then the bridge retains its link-local address as expected. Matthew