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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Mark Smith <ipng@69706e6720323030352d30312d31340a.nosense.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is it valid to add a macvlan virtual interface to a bridge? If so, there seems to be a bug with it.
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:43:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4939CACD.5030609@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081205162608.43ab0864@s6510>

Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> Why bother, a macvlan is just a special case of a bridge, so why not
> just bridge everything?

You can add multiple mac-vlans to a single interface, but you can only
add one bridge on top of that interface.

If you need lots of (virtual) interfaces, bridges won't work as far
as I can tell.

Thanks,
Ben


-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-06  0:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-04 10:03 Is it valid to add a macvlan virtual interface to a bridge? If so, there seems to be a bug with it Mark Smith
2008-12-04 13:01 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-12-05 17:43   ` Ben Greear
2008-12-05 22:54     ` Mark Smith
2008-12-06  0:08       ` Ben Greear
2008-12-06  0:26         ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-12-06  0:43           ` Ben Greear [this message]
2008-12-18  3:44   ` Herbert Xu
2009-01-12  4:55     ` Patrick McHardy

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