netdev - Re: [PATCH] mrp: add periodictimer to retry lost packets

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Message-Id: <20130918.135406.2253301998172106706.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 18 Sep 2013 13:54:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	noel@...ton-krahn.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mrp: add periodictimer to retry lost packets

From: Noel Burton-Krahn <noel@...ton-krahn.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 10:09:25 -0700

> MRP doesn't implement the periodictimer in 802.1Q, so it never retries
> if packets get lost.  I ran into this problem when MRP sent a MVRP
> JoinIn before the interface was fully up.  The JoinIn was lost, MRP
> didn't retry, and MVRP registration failed.
> 
> (Sorry for the repost, my earlier message wasn't formatted correctly)

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