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| author |   Noel Burton-Krahn <noel@burton-krahn.com> | 2013-09-18 12:24:40 -0700 |
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| committer |   David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2013-09-23 16:53:52 -0400 |
| commit | 9fe34f5d920b183ec063550e0f4ec854aa373316 (patch) | |
| tree | ece6e10648809dc2aa87e434b3c7b0f3b0dea0d0 /block | |
| parent | net/lapb: re-send packets on timeout (diff) | |
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mrp: add periodictimer to allow retries when packets get lost
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.
Tested against Juniper QFabric switches
Signed-off-by: Noel Burton-Krahn <noel@burton-krahn.com>
Acked-by: David Ward <david.ward@ll.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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