From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@pandora.be>,
greearb@candelatech.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] disallow vlan devices on top of a logical bridge device
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 08:28:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030902082807.0e18fe76.shemminger@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030830203043.0eb1a660.davem@redhat.com>
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 20:30:43 -0700
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 15:04:03 +0200
> Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@pandora.be> wrote:
>
> > The patch below disables making vlan devices on top of bridge
> > devices, f.e. br0.12 would be impossible.
>
> I don't think disallowing this merely for the sake of
> implementation convenience is such a good idea. And
> from other people's comments, such setups might even
> be useful.
Bridge of a VLAN makes sense and is done.
VLAN of a bridge might be done by someone for redundancy or testing.
Don't apply the patch, can't see the harm in allowing either case.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-02 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-30 13:04 [PATCH/RFC] disallow vlan devices on top of a logical bridge device Bart De Schuymer
2003-08-30 13:21 ` Bart De Schuymer
2003-08-30 19:46 ` Ben Greear
2003-09-05 11:42 ` [VLAN] " Peter Stuge
2003-08-30 21:16 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-08-31 3:30 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-02 15:28 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2003-09-02 17:32 ` Bart De Schuymer
2003-09-02 18:24 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-09-02 20:02 ` Bart De Schuymer
2003-09-02 21:43 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-09-02 23:05 ` Eran Mann
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