From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 net-next] bridge: add support for backup port Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 08:40:28 -0700 Message-ID: <20181012084028.5a64747f@xeon-e3> References: <20181012114255.17217-1-nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, roopa@cumulusnetworks.com, dsahern@kernel.org To: Nikolay Aleksandrov Return-path: Received: from mail-pl1-f194.google.com ([209.85.214.194]:40338 "EHLO mail-pl1-f194.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728786AbeJLXNd (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Oct 2018 19:13:33 -0400 Received: by mail-pl1-f194.google.com with SMTP id 1-v6so6114183plv.7 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2018 08:40:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20181012114255.17217-1-nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 14:42:55 +0300 Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote: > This patch adds support for the new backup port option that can be set > on a bridge port. If the port's carrier goes down all of the traffic > gets redirected to the configured backup port. We add the following new > arguments: > $ ip link set dev brport type bridge_slave backup_port brport2 > $ ip link set dev brport type bridge_slave nobackup_port > > $ bridge link set dev brport backup_port brport2 > $ bridge link set dev brport nobackup_port > > The man pages are updated respectively. > Also 2 minor style adjustments: > - add missing space to bridge man page's state argument > - use lower starting case for vlan_tunnel in ip-link man page (to be > consistent with the rest) > > Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov This seems a bit like feature creep in the bridge. Why not use team or bonding?