[Bridge] Bridge port states
Stephen Hemminger
shemminger at osdl.org
Wed Jan 19 10:31:28 PST 2005
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:49:02 +0100
Patrick Stuedi <stuedip at student.ethz.ch> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Can anyone explain me why we need all this per port state information. A
> bridge port seems to be either in BR_STATE_LISTENING, BR_STATE_LEARNING
> or BR_STATE_FORWARDING. I don't get it, thought the bridge is learning
> from MAC addresses of the received packets, therefore while listening.
> Why a bridge port distinquishes these states?
>
> Thanx,
> Patrick
>
For full detail get the IEEE spec for bridging 802.1G
http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/802.1.html
Port states are described in lots of detail in 7.4
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Stephen Hemminger <shemminger at osdl.org>
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