[ovs-dev] [PATCH] stp: Fix bpdu tx problem in listening state

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Wed Mar 12 05:41:15 UTC 2014


On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 05:48:52PM +0800, kmindg wrote:
> The restriction only allows to send bpdu in forwarding state in
> compose_output_action__. But a port could send bpdu in listening
> and learning state according to comments in lib/stp.h(State of
> an STP port).
> 
> Signed-off-by: kmindg <kmindg at gmail.com>

This appears to fix a bug, but I'm not sure exactly how bad that bug is,
or what the symptoms of it are.  Does this patch mean that currently OVS
isn't sending out BPDUs in certain STP states?  (In other words, that
STP is currently broken?)



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