From: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
To: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Cc: vyasevic@redhat.com,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
Scott Feldman <sfeldma@cumulusnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: bridge get fdb by bridge device
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 08:03:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52FCECB7.8080105@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52FCE69F.5080602@mojatatu.com>
On 2/13/2014 7:37 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> On 02/12/14 13:50, John Fastabend wrote:
>> On 2/11/2014 1:04 PM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
>>
>> Because it is not the same type of object as the software bridge.
>> Most notably it doesn't do learning.
>
> This kept nagging at me.
> Learning is optional for a bridge. So is flooding.
> I think we got this right in recent kernels.
>
> cheers,
> jamal
Yeah I remember now Vlad added them. The real distinction
is macvlan devices only have _one_ uplink port and support
other forwarding modes, VEPA, etc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-13 16:06 UTC|newest]
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2014-02-09 15:06 ` RFC: bridge get fdb by bridge device Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-02-09 19:33 ` John Fastabend
2014-02-11 17:03 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-02-10 16:31 ` Vlad Yasevich
2014-02-11 17:07 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-02-11 18:21 ` Vlad Yasevich
2014-02-11 20:15 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-02-11 20:21 ` John Fastabend
2014-02-11 20:30 ` John Fastabend
2014-02-11 21:04 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-02-12 18:50 ` John Fastabend
2014-02-13 12:50 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-02-13 15:37 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-02-13 16:03 ` John Fastabend [this message]
2014-02-11 21:00 ` Vlad Yasevich
2014-02-11 21:08 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-02-11 21:12 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-02-12 19:02 ` Vlad Yasevich
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