[Bridge] Disabling MAC address tracking

[Bridge] Disabling MAC address tracking

[Nathaniel Gephart]

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Hello,

I'm using bridge-utils as part of a Xen installation. I've got a bunch of
isolated bridges connecting up a number of virtual machines. I would like these
bridges to act more like hubs. That is, instead of keeping track of which MAC
addresses are on which ports, I want them to forward frames to all ports always.
Is there a way to do this?

Thanks,

Nate Gephart


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Re: [Bridge] Disabling MAC address tracking

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:51:23 -0500
Nathaniel Gephart <10thaperag@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm using bridge-utils as part of a Xen installation. I've got a bunch of
> isolated bridges connecting up a number of virtual machines. I would like these
> bridges to act more like hubs. That is, instead of keeping track of which MAC
> addresses are on which ports, I want them to forward frames to all ports always.
> Is there a way to do this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Nate Gephart
> 

Just set hold time to zero.

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Re: [Bridge] Disabling MAC address tracking

[Nathaniel Gephart]

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On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:34:11PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Just set hold time to zero.

Thanks.

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