[Bridge] [PATCH] [bridge] Add split horizon

Joakim Tjernlund joakim.tjernlund at transmode.se
Sat Jun 13 08:03:14 PDT 2009


Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet at amorsen.dk> wrote on 13/06/2009 01:58:53:
>
> Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se> writes:
>
> > Currently the bridge does not impl. split horizon which will easily
> > cause loops when 2 or more VLANs are added from the same physical interface.
>
> Why would they cause loops? If your topology isn't loop free, run
> spanning tree in the VLAN's. Yet another thing most hardware switches
> can't do, incidentally.

ehh, connect two Linux bridges that have 2 VLANs in common on the interswitch connection.
What happens?

  Jocke



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