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Subject: Re: [Bridge] [PATCH v4] iproute2: add mdb sub-command to bridge
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To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au>, Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>, Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>

On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 09:07 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 	# ./bridge/bridge mdb
> > 	bridge br0:
> > 	port eth0, group 224.8.8.9
> > 	port eth1, group 224.8.8.8
> 
> I like the ability to see what is going on. It would
> be good if there was also a monitor like hook to see new entries
> created and destroyed (later version).

I am working on a patch to implement RTM_NEWMDB and RTM_DELMDB, so we
will have this.

> 
> The output format should be one line per entry for easier
> parsing by utilities. Something similar to 'ip neigh show'
> 

Right, I will update this in v5.

Thanks!