linux/net/802
Noel Burton-Krahn 9fe34f5d92 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>
2013-09-23 16:53:52 -04:00
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Kconfig net/802: Implement Multiple Registration Protocol (MRP) 2013-02-10 20:37:22 -05:00
Makefile net/802: Implement Multiple Registration Protocol (MRP) 2013-02-10 20:37:22 -05:00
fc.c net: cleanup unsigned to unsigned int 2012-04-15 12:44:40 -04:00
fddi.c net: cleanup unsigned to unsigned int 2012-04-15 12:44:40 -04:00
garp.c 802: fix a possible race condition 2013-04-07 17:04:17 -04:00
hippi.c net: cleanup unsigned to unsigned int 2012-04-15 12:44:40 -04:00
mrp.c mrp: add periodictimer to allow retries when packets get lost 2013-09-23 16:53:52 -04:00
p8022.c net: delete all instances of special processing for token ring 2012-05-15 20:14:35 -04:00
p8023.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
psnap.c snap: remove one synchronize_net() 2011-05-23 16:29:24 -04:00
stp.c 802: Convert compare_ether_addr to ether_addr_equal 2012-05-09 20:49:17 -04:00