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From: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
To: "Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>
Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>,
	Hubert Sokolowski <h.sokolowski@wit.edu.pl>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next RESEND] net: Do not call ndo_dflt_fdb_dump if ndo_fdb_dump is defined.
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 11:30:30 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54908856.1070708@cumulusnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54906A11.6030701@intel.com>

On 12/16/14, 9:21 AM, Samudrala, Sridhar wrote:
>
> On 12/16/2014 8:35 AM, John Fastabend wrote:
>>
>>> Is there no way to get the unicast/multicast mac addresses for such
>>> a driver?
>>
>> You can almost infer it from ip link by looking at all the stacked
>> drivers and figuring out how the address are propagated down. Then
>> look at the routes and figure out multicast address. But other than
>> the fdb dump mechanism I don't think there is anything.
>
> It looks like we can get the device specific unicast/multicast mac 
> addresses via 'ip maddr' too.
if i remember correctly, 'ip maddr' was only for multicast list. And 
there was no way to dump the unicast list until bridge self was introduced.
the only way to dump unicast addresses today is by using the `bridge fdb 
show self`

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-16 19:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-10 19:37 [PATCH net-next RESEND] net: Do not call ndo_dflt_fdb_dump if ndo_fdb_dump is defined Hubert Sokolowski
2014-12-11  4:32 ` David Miller
2014-12-11 11:49   ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-11 16:51     ` Hubert Sokolowski
2014-12-11  7:31 ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-12-11 16:39   ` Hubert Sokolowski
2014-12-11 18:47     ` Arad, Ronen
2014-12-11 17:06   ` Hubert Sokolowski
2014-12-11 17:32     ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-12-11 20:40       ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-12 11:38       ` Hubert Sokolowski
2014-12-12 11:54         ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-12 13:36           ` Hubert Sokolowski
2014-12-12 14:35             ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-12 20:05               ` John Fastabend
2014-12-15 14:29                 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-16  0:45                   ` John Fastabend
2014-12-16 13:06                     ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-16 14:35                       ` Hubert Sokolowski
2014-12-16 16:35                       ` John Fastabend
2014-12-16 17:21                         ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2014-12-16 19:30                           ` Roopa Prabhu [this message]
2014-12-16 20:11                             ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2014-12-17  5:54                               ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-12-21 14:27                         ` SRIOV as bridge " Jamal Hadi Salim
     [not found]                           ` <443500166.23675449.1419179623398.JavaMail.zimbra@cumulusnetworks.com>
2014-12-21 16:33                             ` Shrijeet Mukherjee
2014-12-21 19:08                           ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-12-21 19:19                             ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-21 19:36                               ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-12-21 20:06                                 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-21 20:46                                   ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-12-22  3:13                                     ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-22  6:24                                       ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-12-22 12:10                                         ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-22 13:04                                           ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-21 19:52                             ` John Fastabend
2014-12-22  2:59                               ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-21 14:46                         ` SRIOV fdb and modes WAS(Re: " Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-17  5:51                       ` Roopa Prabhu
2014-12-17 15:39                     ` Vlad Yasevich
2014-12-17 16:18                       ` Hubert Sokolowski
2014-12-18 22:32                         ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2014-12-19 15:17                           ` Hubert Sokolowski
2014-12-19 16:32                             ` Roopa Prabhu
2015-01-05 12:56                               ` Hubert Sokolowski

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