Bug 116141

Summary:	FDB table grows out of control
Product:	Networking	Reporter:	dlevy
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Stephen Hemminger (stephen)
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	high
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	3.13	Subsystem:
Regression:	No	Bisected commit-id:

Description dlevy 2016-04-10 23:53:45 UTC

The forwarding database (FDB) grows out of control after too many broadcast entries are entered under the same interface.
I've written a test script to reproduce the bug here using virtual box:
https://github.com/dlevy-ibm/fdb_bug

Comment 1 dlevy 2016-04-11 16:32:52 UTC

Note that 3.13 is end of life