From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
davem@davemloft.net
Subject: net 00/06: add GARP/GVRP support
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 19:04:41 +0200 (MEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080703170441.6650.64717.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
These patches add an implementation of the GARP (Generic Attribute
Registration Protocol) applicant-only participant, which can be used
to dynamically register VLANs and multicast addresses with switches.
Applicant-only means it can only be used as a client, not on a bridge.
Also included is a GVRP (GARP VLAN Registration Protocol) application
on top.
I asked on opinions whether this should be merged a couple of weeks
ago, and Pekka Savola informed me that GARP was considered obsolete
by the IEEE. However, especially GVRP is supported by a huge number
of switches, even very cheap ones, so I think this is still useful
to support.
GARP uses the LLC_SAP_BSPAN LLC, which is also used by STP. Different
multicast addresses are used to distinguish the protocols. Since the
LLC code doesn't allow multiple registrations for the same SAP, a
small mac based demux layer is added that is used by both bridging
and GARP.
GVRP is not enabled by default yet. Since the applicant-only participant
should not be used on a bridge, we first need a reliable way to get
notified when a VLAN device becomes a bridge member. So currently,
the user needs to manually enable it using iproute. I plan to change
this soon.
include/linux/if_vlan.h | 1 +
include/linux/netdevice.h | 2 +
include/net/garp.h | 128 +++++++++
include/net/stp.h | 14 +
net/802/Kconfig | 7 +
net/802/Makefile | 2 +
net/802/garp.c | 633 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
net/802/stp.c | 102 ++++++++
net/8021q/Kconfig | 10 +
net/8021q/Makefile | 9 +-
net/8021q/vlan.c | 33 ++-
net/8021q/vlan.h | 19 ++-
net/8021q/vlan_dev.c | 32 ++-
net/8021q/vlan_gvrp.c | 66 +++++
net/8021q/vlan_netlink.c | 7 +-
net/Kconfig | 1 +
net/bridge/Kconfig | 1 +
net/bridge/br.c | 16 +-
net/bridge/br_private.h | 5 +-
net/bridge/br_stp_bpdu.c | 12 +-
20 files changed, 1051 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 include/net/garp.h
create mode 100644 include/net/stp.h
create mode 100644 net/802/Kconfig
create mode 100644 net/802/garp.c
create mode 100644 net/802/stp.c
create mode 100644 net/8021q/vlan_gvrp.c
Patrick McHardy (6):
net: Add STP demux layer
bridge: Use STP demux
net: Add GARP applicant-only participant
vlan: Change vlan_dev_set_vlan_flag() to handle multiple flags at once
vlan: Move device unregistration before lower dev cleanup
vlan: Add GVRP support
next reply other threads:[~2008-07-03 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-03 17:04 Patrick McHardy [this message]
2008-07-03 17:04 ` net 01/06: Add STP demux layer Patrick McHardy
2008-07-03 17:40 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-03 17:51 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-07-03 17:04 ` bridge 02/06: Use STP demux Patrick McHardy
2008-07-03 17:04 ` net 03/06: Add GARP applicant-only participant Patrick McHardy
2008-07-03 17:04 ` vlan 04/06: Change vlan_dev_set_vlan_flag() to handle multiple flags at once Patrick McHardy
2008-07-03 17:04 ` vlan 05/06: Move device unregistration before lower dev cleanup Patrick McHardy
2008-07-03 17:04 ` vlan 06/06: Add GVRP support Patrick McHardy
2008-07-06 4:33 ` net 00/06: add GARP/GVRP support David Miller
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