I¹m L2 challenged, so please forgive my lack of clue in this space. First, is CDP really a BPDU? It¹s not performing any sort of spanning tree functionality so I question why OVS¹s forwarding of CDP frames is tied to the bpdu-forwarding value. Is there a reason why CDP is included in the list protocols tied to bpdu-forwarding?
Is the following correct: If STP is enabled, then the setting for bpdu-forwarding has no effect. If STP is not enabled, then setting bpdu-forwarding to true causes OVS to forward BPDUs. Thanks Brian On 3/31/15, 11:14 AM, "Justin Pettit" <jpet...@nicira.com> wrote: > >> On Mar 31, 2015, at 8:31 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: >> >> + If STP is enabled on the bridge (see the <ref column="stp_enable" >> + table="Open_vSwitch"/> column in the <ref table="Bridge"/> table), > >I think that should be "Bridge" instead of "Open_vSwitch". > >> + Set this option to <code>true</code> if the Open vSwitch bridge >> + connects different Ethernet networks and does not run STP. > >This reads ambiguous to me whether the bridge or network is not running >STP. How about something like the following? > > Set this option to <code>true</code> if the Open vSwitch bridge > connects different Ethernet networks and is not configured to > participate in STP. > >I'd like to hear from Brian, but it looks like an improvement to me: > >Acked-by: Justin Pettit <jpet...@nicira.com> > >--Justin > > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
