From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamal Hadi Salim Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] Add basic VLAN support to bridges Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:37:03 -0500 Message-ID: <50CA588F.9040800@mojatatu.com> References: <50C91506.70903@redhat.com> <20121213094719.3a7a9408@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> <20121213.140023.2131448980265576282.davem@davemloft.net> <20121213110404.6d662baa@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> <50CA37DA.1090905@mojatatu.com> <20121213140218.2c705bb5@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , vyasevic@redhat.com, or.gerlitz@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, mst@redhat.com, john.r.fastabend@intel.com To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from mail-ia0-f174.google.com ([209.85.210.174]:49100 "EHLO mail-ia0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753028Ab2LMWhJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:37:09 -0500 Received: by mail-ia0-f174.google.com with SMTP id y25so2512238iay.19 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:37:06 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20121213140218.2c705bb5@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 12-12-13 05:02 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:17:30 -0500 > > Nah, no reinvention, people who want to do filtering and bridging > just use openvswitch instead. so says the maintainer of bridging and iproute2. Why cant i use bridging as is and iproute2/tc filter action? What is the impediment for you my friend? command line cryptic, performance problem - what is it? cheers, jamal