Re: [PATCH] bridge: flush forwarding table when device carrier off

2006-10-12 Thread David Miller
From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:24:31 -0700 > Flush the forwarding table when carrier is lost. This helps for > availability because we don't want to forward to a downed device and > new packets may come in on other links. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger

Re: [PATCH] bridge: flush forwarding table when device carrier off

2006-10-12 Thread jamal
On Thu, 2006-12-10 at 14:32 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > I am on the other extreme - this is problematic if you have a large > > table already learnt. Agrevate that with an unstable link and it gets a > > lot worse. Both of which dont sound unrealistic in say a wireless AP. > > We don't su

Re: [PATCH] bridge: flush forwarding table when device carrier off

2006-10-12 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:30:33 -0400 jamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-12-10 at 16:10 -0400, Andy Gospodarek wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 11:24:31AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > Flush the forwarding table when carrier is lost. This helps for > > > availability because we

Re: [PATCH] bridge: flush forwarding table when device carrier off

2006-10-12 Thread jamal
On Thu, 2006-12-10 at 16:10 -0400, Andy Gospodarek wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 11:24:31AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > Flush the forwarding table when carrier is lost. This helps for > > availability because we don't want to forward to a downed device and > > new packets may come in on

Re: [PATCH] bridge: flush forwarding table when device carrier off

2006-10-12 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:10:44 -0400 Andy Gospodarek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 11:24:31AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > Flush the forwarding table when carrier is lost. This helps for > > availability because we don't want to forward to a downed device and > > new pa

Re: [PATCH] bridge: flush forwarding table when device carrier off

2006-10-12 Thread Andy Gospodarek
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 11:24:31AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Flush the forwarding table when carrier is lost. This helps for > availability because we don't want to forward to a downed device and > new packets may come in on other links. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECT