From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bert Vermeulen Subject: bridge/brctl/ip Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 21:26:55 +0200 Message-ID: <57001CFF.20508@biot.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from kiutl.biot.com ([31.172.244.210]:44984 "EHLO kiutl.biot.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750972AbcDBTrT (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Apr 2016 15:47:19 -0400 Received: from spamd by kiutl.biot.com with sa-checked (Exim 4.83) (envelope-from ) id 1amRCE-0005lv-3v for netdev@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2016 21:26:58 +0200 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi all, I'm wondering about the current userspace toolset to control bridging in the Linux kernel. As far as I can determine, functionality is a bit scattered right now between the iproute2 (ip, bridge) and bridge-utils (brctl) tools: - creating/deleting bridges: ip or brctl - adding/deleting ports to/from bridge: brctl only - showing bridge fdb: brctl (in-kernel fdb), bridge (hardware offloaded fdb) (!) ...and no doubt a few other things. Also the brctl tool seems not to be getting updates, whereas the iproute2 tools are of course updated regularly. Is brctl considered obsolete? If that is the case, would patches to add the missing functionality into the bridge tool be welcome? I'm thinking primarily of creating/deleting bridges, and adding/deleting ports in bridges. -- Bert Vermeulen bert@biot.com