Ok, so stupid question... how do hardware switches deal with this? It would seem to me that if everyone behind say a Cisco switch had these kind of issues they would have limited appeal...
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Herbert Xu [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 08:46:44PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > I have disabled STP on the bridge; it doesn't change the behavior. Once you have disabled STP, you can set the forward delay to 0 which should do the trick. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu [off-list ref] Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt