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To: Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com>, "David P. Discher" <dpd@dpdtech.com>
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El 10/12/14 a les 19.25, Ryan Stone ha escrit:
>>From a quick look at the code, whenever an interface is added to a
> bridge, if that interface does not support a feature currently enabled
> on the bridge then it has to disable that feature on all member
> interfaces of that bridge.  That would re-init the em interface, which
> would cause a link flap.

This is something specific to the em driver implementation I guess,
because I've tried it with other drivers (bge and bce) and the
connection is not dropped when the normalization of options happens.

Roger.