From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Bert Vermeulen <bert@biot.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: bridge/brctl/ip
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 00:39:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160402223906.GI32554@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57001CFF.20508@biot.com>
On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 09:26:55PM +0200, Bert Vermeulen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm wondering about the current userspace toolset to control bridging in
> the Linux kernel. As far as I can determine, functionality is a bit
> scattered right now between the iproute2 (ip, bridge) and bridge-utils
> (brctl) tools:
>
> - adding/deleting ports to/from bridge: brctl only
ip link set lan0 master br0
I think most of the normal operations can be done with iproute2. What
might be missing is things like setting the forwarding delay, hello
time, etc.
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-02 22:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-02 19:26 bridge/brctl/ip Bert Vermeulen
2016-04-02 22:39 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2016-04-02 22:50 ` bridge/brctl/ip Nikolay Aleksandrov
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