Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC v2 1/4] bridge: enable interfaces to opt out from becoming the root bridge

From: Zoltan Kiss <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:52:24 +0000

On 15/02/14 02:59, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <[email-masked]>
>
> It doesn't make sense for some interfaces to become a root bridge
> at any point in time. One example is virtual backend interfaces
> which rely on other entities on the bridge for actual physical
> connectivity. They only provide virtual access.

It is possible that a guest bridge together to VIF, either from the same 
Dom0 bridge or from different ones. In that case using STP on VIFs sound 
sensible to me.

Zoli