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If a backup port is configured for a bridge port, the bridge will redirect known unicast traffic towards the backup port when the primary port is administratively up but without a carrier. This is useful, for example, in MLAG configurations where a system is connected to two switches and there is a peer link between both switches. The peer link serves as the backup port in case one of the switches loses its connection to the multi-homed system. In order to avoid flooding when the primary port loses its carrier, the bridge does not flush dynamic FDB entries pointing to the port upon STP disablement, if the port has a backup port. The above means that known unicast traffic destined to the primary port will be blackholed when the port is put administratively down, until the FDB entries pointing to it are aged-out. Given that the current behavior is quite weird and unlikely to be depended on by anyone, amend the bridge to redirect to the backup port also when the primary port is administratively down and not only when it does not have a carrier. The change is motivated by a report from a user who expected traffic to be redirected to the backup port when the primary port was put administratively down while debugging a network issue. Reviewed-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250812080213.325298-2-idosch@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.