[Bridge] BPDU generation problem

[Kishore A K]

Hi Stephan,

But is it not a serious bug cause it is going to the affect the topology of the 
entire network on to which the bridge is connected..

Regards,
Kishore



>>> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger at osdl.org> 05/18/04 09:24PM >>>
On Tue, 18 May 2004 21:18:01 +0530
"Kishore A K" <kishoreak at myw.ltindia.com> wrote:

> Hi Stephen,
> 
> I have been studying the bridge source & analyzing its flow by putting printks
> at various places. I am using kernel 2.6.6. I found something really strange 
> happening..
> 
> I have setup a bridge with two ports. I havent enabled stp on the bridge. Which
> I have confirmed by doing a "brctl show" also. However from the printks I find 
> that BPDUs are getting generated & sent on the ports. Isnt this not supposed to 
> happen?
> 
> Regards,
> Kishore

Probably just a stupid bug.