From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamal Hadi Salim Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 2/2] bridge netlink dump interface at par with brctl Actually better than brctl showmacs because we can filter by bridge port in the kernel Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2014 08:24:02 -0400 Message-ID: <538B1B62.1060400@mojatatu.com> References: <1401623780-4297-1-git-send-email-jhs@emojatatu.com> <1401623780-4297-2-git-send-email-jhs@emojatatu.com> <538B19A9.4050607@mojatatu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, vyasevic@redhat.com, sfeldma@cumulusnetworks.com, john.r.fastabend@intel.com, roopa@cumulusnetworks.com To: davem@davemloft.net, stephen@networkplumber.org Return-path: Received: from mail-ie0-f176.google.com ([209.85.223.176]:44311 "EHLO mail-ie0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757513AbaFAMYH (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jun 2014 08:24:07 -0400 Received: by mail-ie0-f176.google.com with SMTP id rl12so3450612iec.35 for ; Sun, 01 Jun 2014 05:24:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <538B19A9.4050607@mojatatu.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Additional note: This is also on top of Roopa's patch. cheers, jamal On 06/01/14 08:16, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote: > > This is mostly to you Vlad since you brought it up earlier. > I ended using ifm instead of ndm. Currently there is lack of > symettry - we send requests with ifm and get responses with > ndms. Unfortunately after spending 2-3 hours I came to the > conclusion i cant change it without breaking old iproute2s that > were expecting this behavior. What we have here is a magnitude > better filtering but we could have done slightly better if we > were able to use an ndm. A little acrobatics later on to filter > by vlans may work.. > > cheers, > jamal >