From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roopa Prabhu 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 21:54:26 -0800 Message-ID: <54911A92.9020909@cumulusnetworks.com> References: <54894850.5000603@cumulusnetworks.com> <7968540cd0768a770b0c8b29ce41a162.squirrel@poczta.wsisiz.edu.pl> <5489D53E.5010603@cumulusnetworks.com> <8d4ec5c1ae73c77866a0a154fb528f23.squirrel@poczta.wsisiz.edu.pl> <548AD781.5020004@mojatatu.com> <4c22a6c452a73b3b77a9a9c8e7f76bcc.squirrel@poczta.wsisiz.edu.pl> <548AFD41.3010801@mojatatu.com> <548B4AA4.1020804@gmail.com> <548EF05E.6050401@mojatatu.com> <548F80B2.80408@gmail.com> <54902E5E.2070405@mojatatu.com> <54905F67.2090509@gmail.com> <54906A11.6030701@intel.com> <54908856.1070708@cumulusnetworks.com> <549091DB.6050600@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: John Fastabend , Jamal Hadi Salim , Hubert Sokolowski , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , Vlad Yasevich To: "Samudrala, Sridhar" Return-path: Received: from ext3.cumulusnetworks.com ([198.211.106.187]:46650 "EHLO ext3.cumulusnetworks.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751162AbaLQFya (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2014 00:54:30 -0500 In-Reply-To: <549091DB.6050600@intel.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 12/16/14, 12:11 PM, Samudrala, Sridhar wrote: > > On 12/16/2014 11:30 AM, Roopa Prabhu wrote: >> 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` > Yes. 'ip maddr show' only lists the multicast macs as the name > suggests. I stand corrected. > May be we need 'ip uaddr show' to list unicast macs instead of > overloading 'bridge fdb show' to show unicast lists. > maybe too late for that ..., 'bridge fdb show self' has been out for sometime now and in use