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From: michael-dev <michael-dev@fami-braun.de>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "Linus Lüssing" <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>,
	"Felix Fietkau" <nbd@nbd.name>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Stephen Hemminger" <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bridge: multicast to unicast
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 16:25:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ebc5050e12c04273fa518e35d7f0b8bc@fami-braun.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1483964159.17582.34.camel@sipsolutions.net>

Am 09.01.2017 13:15, schrieb Johannes Berg:
>> That is bridge fdb entries (need to) expire so the bridge might
>> "forget" a still-connected station not sending but only consuming
>> broadcast traffic.
> 
> Ok, that I don't know. Somehow if you address a unicast packet there
> the bridge has to make a decision - so it really should know?

If the bridge has not learned the unicast destination mac address on any 
port, it will flood the packet on all ports except the port it received 
the packet on.

Regards,
M. Braun

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-09 15:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-02 19:32 Linus Lüssing
2017-01-03 11:58 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2017-01-03 13:15 ` Felix Fietkau
2017-01-06 12:47 ` Johannes Berg
2017-01-06 13:52   ` Felix Fietkau
2017-01-06 13:54     ` Johannes Berg
2017-01-06 13:54       ` Felix Fietkau
2017-01-07 10:32       ` M. Braun
2017-01-07 14:55         ` Linus Lüssing
2017-01-09  8:08           ` Johannes Berg
2017-01-09 11:44             ` M. Braun
2017-01-09 12:15               ` Johannes Berg
2017-01-09 15:25                 ` michael-dev [this message]
2017-01-09 15:47                   ` Johannes Berg
2017-01-09 21:23               ` Linus Lüssing
2017-01-09 21:30                 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-01-10  4:18                   ` Linus Lüssing
2017-01-10 10:56                     ` Johannes Berg
2017-01-10 17:17                       ` Dave Taht
2017-01-10 17:23                         ` Felix Fietkau
2017-01-10 18:24                           ` Dave Taht
2017-01-10 21:27                       ` Felix Fietkau
2017-01-11 11:26                         ` IgorMitsyanko
2017-01-11 11:30                           ` Felix Fietkau
2017-01-11 12:15                             ` IgorMitsyanko
2017-01-11 12:21                               ` Felix Fietkau
2017-01-07 15:15   ` Linus Lüssing
2017-01-09  8:05     ` Johannes Berg
2017-01-09 12:42       ` Linus Lüssing
2017-01-09 12:44         ` Johannes Berg
2017-01-09 23:12           ` Linus Lüssing
2017-01-11  9:17             ` Johannes Berg
2017-01-07  3:13 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-01-07 15:06   ` Linus Lüssing
2017-01-09  8:36   ` Jean-Pierre Tosoni

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