Re: [E1000-devel] Can I discard spanning_tree packets?

[Brandeburg, J. <jes...@in...>]

dragon wrote:
> When connecting two computers (with one e1000 each) back to back, I
> tried simple rx/tx 
> work but found some problems.
> 
> Situation:
> Computer A is rx enabled only and always ready to receive packets.
> Computer B is both rx and tx enabled. B sends packets at high rate
> about 742Mbps(62Kfps). 
> 
> Problem:
> A receives packets OK.
> But B could also receive spliceco/spanning_tree(for bridge) packets
> as many as 55Mbps(118Kfps). The packet data is 60Bytes long and read
> as following: 
> 
> 01 80 C2 00 00 01 00 07 09 0D 5F F8 88 08 00 01
> 06 80 00 00 00 ................................
> ...............................................
> 
> 
> Reading some information on the internet, I come to know what
> spanning_tree is. 
> But I still want to ask about it because such packets are too many to
> lead to 
> performance degrading.
> 
> Can I discard such packets in some way?
> Will so high rate it also occur when

I suggest not loading the bridge module, if you're back to back you certainly don't want to be bridging.