[Bridge] brigde does not relay BPDU multicast pkgs

[Ross Vandegrift]

On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 10:33:37AM +0200, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> We have noticed that when STP is off in the linux bridge, it won't
> relay STP pkts received from other bridges.
> This feels like a bug(a bad one too). I hope this isn't
> intentional behaviour?

IEEE 802.1D specifies that no bridge should ever forward packets
destined to the bridge multicast groups.  See requirement 7.12.6 in
802.1D-2004.

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