[Bridge] Re: unidirectional traffic and flooding

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:19:06 +0200
"Alexander (Sasha) Sirotkin" <sasha.sirotkin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Suppose there is a unidirectional traffic only (for instance UDP) to one of
> the devices connected to a bridge. At the beginning, the bridge will learn
> the location of this device from gracious ARP. However, after the timeout
> the bridge will forget this information and since there is no traffic from
> that device (remember, the traffic is unidirectional, i.e. to the device
> only) it will start flooding... and will continue to do so forever.
> 
> I have a feeling that I must be not the first person to encounter this
> problem. Any ideas ?
> 
You should check the 802.1d standard.

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Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger at vyatta.com>