Overview

Fast Path Ethernet Bridge provides Ethernet bridging in the fast path.

Features

Hairpin

Controls whether or not traffic may be sent back from the port on which it was received.

Learning

Controls whether or not a given port will learn MAC addresses from received traffic.

Flooding

Controls whether or not a given port will flood unicast traffic for which there is no FDB entry.

Dependencies

6WINDGate modules

• Fast Path Baseline

Linux

• Bridge synchronization is a kernel patch (upstream 3.0).

  http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bb900b27a2f4

• Promiscuity status synchronization (for bridge ports) is a kernel patch (upstream 3.13). Without this patch, user has to manually set the bridge ports in promiscuous mode.

  http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=991fb3f74c14

• Bridge FDB synchonization is a kernel patch (upstream 3.0).

  http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b078f0df6762

• Synchronization of permanent FDB entries is a kernel patch (upstream 3.3).

  http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f58ee4e1a28b