compare_ether_addr() implicitly requires that the addresses
passed are 2-bytes aligned in memory.

This is not true for br_stp_change_bridge_id() and
br_stp_recalculate_bridge_id() in which one of the addresses
is unsigned char *, and thus may not be 2-bytes aligned.
Signed-off-by: NEvgeny Kravtsunov <emkravts@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: NKirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: NPavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>

Signed-off-by: NYOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Flush the forwarding table when carrier is lost. This helps for
availability because we don't want to forward to a downed device and
new packets may come in on other links.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Add basic netlink support to the Ethernet bridge. Including:
 * dump interfaces in bridges
 * monitor link status changes
 * change state of bridge port

For some demo programs see:
	http://developer.osdl.org/shemminger/prototypes/brnl.tar.gz

These are to allow building a daemon that does alternative
implementations of Spanning Tree Protocol.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Initialize the STP timers for a port when it is created,
rather than when it is enabled. This will prevent future race conditions
where timer gets started before port is enabled.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemmigner@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Looks like somebody forgot to use the _bh spin_lock variant. We ran into a 
deadlock where br->hello_timer expired while br_stp_disable_br() walked 
br->port_list. 
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Drzewiecki <z@drze.net>
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

One of the conversions from memcmp to compare_ether_addr is incorrect.
We need to do relative comparison to determine min MAC address to
use in bridge id. 
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Some people are using bridging to hide multiple machines from an ISP
that restricts by MAC address. So in that case allow the bridge mac
address to be set to any of the existing interfaces.  I don't want to
allow any arbitrary value and confuse STP.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Use compare_ether_addr in bridge code.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!