[Bridge] Re: [PATCH] bridge: packets leaking out of disabled/blocked ports

John W. Linville linville at tuxdriver.com
Thu Aug 30 13:03:13 PDT 2007


On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 12:22:58PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> This patch fixes some packet leakage in bridge.  The bridging code
> was allowing forward table entries to be generated even if a device
> was being blocked. The fix is to not add forwarding database entries
> unless the port is active.

Seems reasonable -- ACK

John
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