From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jaime Medrano <jaime.medrano@gmail.com>
Cc: bridge@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] [PATCH] Add vlan id to bridge forward database
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:53:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071217085349.729e5c17@deepthought> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4766a3d1.02ab100a.0be8.6fdc@mx.google.com>
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:13:09 +0100
Jaime Medrano <jaime.medrano@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> This makes forwarding table aware of 802.1Q vlan ids and stores
> id with MACs in the table.
>
> It solves problems when having same MAC on diffent pairs
> (vlan, port). Current code gets confused at that situation.
>
> Local MACs are managed as present on every vlan.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jaime Medrano <jaime.medrano@gmail.com>
What about the nested vlan case?
I assume it continues to work without Vlan's.
How does this affect use of the userspace RSTP?
> --- linux-2.6.23.orig/include/linux/if_bridge.h 2007-12-17 11:59:46.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.23/include/linux/if_bridge.h 2007-12-17 12:00:28.000000000 +0100
> @@ -97,7 +97,8 @@
> __u8 port_no;
> __u8 is_local;
> __u32 ageing_timer_value;
> - __u32 unused;
> + __u16 vlan_id;
> + __u16 unused;
> };
This is a user/kernel ABI change. Does it break old tools?
--
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-17 16:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-17 16:13 [Bridge] [PATCH] Add vlan id to bridge forward database Jaime Medrano
2007-12-17 16:53 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2007-12-18 9:05 ` Jaime Medrano
2008-01-28 15:39 ` Jaime Medrano
2008-01-28 20:29 ` [Bridge] " Benny Amorsen
2008-03-17 18:35 ` [Bridge] " Stephen Hemminger
2008-04-02 9:30 ` Jaime Medrano
2008-04-28 20:57 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-04-29 8:24 ` Jaime Medrano
2008-04-29 12:43 ` Benny Amorsen
2008-04-29 15:18 ` Jaime Medrano
2008-04-29 23:16 ` richardvoigt
2008-04-30 2:25 ` Jonathan Thibault
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2007-12-17 16:13 Jaime Medrano
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