Hi Guenter, On Jun 2, 2015, at 9:52 PM, Vivien Didelot vivien.dide...@savoirfairelinux.com wrote: > On Jun 2, 2015, at 10:20 AM, Guenter Roeck li...@roeck-us.net wrote: >> On 06/01/2015 06:27 PM, Vivien Didelot wrote: >>> This patch disables egress of unknown unicast destination addresses. >>> >> >> Hi Vivien, >> >> seems to me this patch is unrelated to the rest of the series. >> >> Not sure if we really want this. If an address is in the arp cache >> but has timed out from the bridge database, any unicast to that address >> will no longer be sent. If the bridge database has been flushed for some >> reason, such as a spanning tree reconfiguration, we'll have a hard time >> to send anything. >> >> What is the problem you are trying to solve with this patch ? > > TBH, I don't remember which one of the test cases I described in 0/9 > this patch was solving... Some ARP request didn't propagate correctly > without this, IIRC. > > I'll try to revert the change and do my tests again in order to isolate > the problem.
Indeed, it seems like this patch is not necessary. I removed it and I was still able to ping a tagged and untagged port from an untagged one. I will remove it from this serie. Thanks, -v -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
