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From: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Subject: Re: vxlan/veth performance issues on net.git + latest kernels
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 12:19:21 -0800
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On 12/3/2013 11:50 AM, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> brctl addbr br-vx
>>> ip link set br-vx up
>>> ifconfig br-vx 192.168.52.144/24 up
>>> brctl addif br-vx vxlan42
>>> ip link add type veth
>>> brctl addif br-vx veth1
>
>> Aside question : If I do not have brctl on my host,
>> how can I use "ip" command to perform this "brctl addif" action ?
>
> you can get the sources from
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shemminger/bridge-utils.git
> or from http://sourceforge.net/projects/bridge/files/bridge/bridge-utils-1.5.tar.gz/download,
> should be trivial to configure and build, if I remember correct
>
>


The 'brctl addif' should be the same as setting the master.

#ip link set dev veth1 master br-vs

and then use nomaster to delete the interface.

.John