Re: [patch net-next-2.6] bridge: allow hub-like behaviour

[Jiri Pirko <jpirko@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 03:02:51PM CEST, shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:48:48 +0200
>Jiri Pirko <jpirko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 02:35:41PM CEST, shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> >On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:15:24 +0200
>> >Jiri Pirko <jpirko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 06:07:41PM CEST, shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> >> >NO. unnecessary
>> >> >
>> >> >Already possible, without patch. Just set the hold time
>> >> >on the bridge to 0!
>> >> 
>> >> Sorry, but could you please point me a sysfs node where should I do this
>> >> setting? Unable to find this.
>> >> 
>> >> Thanks.
>> >> 
>> >
>> >/sys/class/net/ethX/brport/hold_timer
>
>Too early...
>
>hold_time is computed from ageing time, so that is the value
>you need to set:
>
>$ ls -l /sys/class/net/br0/bridge/ageing_time 
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2010-08-12 08:34 /sys/class/net/br0/bridge/ageing_time

Yep, figured that out. Works as expected. Thanks Stephen.
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