From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cyrill Gorcunov Subject: [RFC 0/5] bridge - introduce via_phys_dev feature Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 15:46:39 +0400 Message-ID: <20090511114639.440944109@openvz.org> Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, xemul@openvz.org To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.225]:31090 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755482AbZEKMxz (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2009 08:53:55 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id f9so2140700rvb.1 for ; Mon, 11 May 2009 05:53:56 -0700 (PDT) Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, here is RFC for new via_phys_dev bridge feature. In short -- it allows to use some bridge port as bridge itself with already configured routing table. More details with example you may found in patches. Please review. Any (including _complains_) comments are highly appreciated! The series is on top of current -net-next-2.6 | commit ed9b58bc443a1210b5be1ded6421b17e015bf985 | Author Richard Genoud | Date Sat May 9 06:59:16 2009 +0000 Cyrill