[ovs-dev] [PATCH] Option to forward BPDU (Ethernet control class) frames

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Tue Aug 9 19:08:18 UTC 2011


On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 11:08:27AM -0700, Sanjay Sane wrote:
> Currently, a NORMAL action bridge drops reserved-multicast-mac addresses;
> 01-80-c2-00-00-[f0:ff]. A node that does not implement STP should have an
> option to forward such frames.
> 
> This commit proposes to have a configuration option to allow forwarding of
> BPDU class frames.  To ensure backward compatibility, this option is
> disabled by default.

I pushed this to "master".

Thanks,

Ben.



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