From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: "richardvoigt@gmail.com" <richardvoigt@gmail.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, bridge@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] [RFC 0/5] bridge - introduce via_phys_dev feature
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:25:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100226092551.25f0e50f@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2e59e6971002260852m79d9c79t5293b3b8c7575d46@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:52:52 -0600
"richardvoigt@gmail.com" <richardvoigt@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Stephen Hemminger
> <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > Looking back at this. What if the API was simpler:
> >
> > Instead of:
> >> Typical session looks like
> >>
> >> | s...@10.10.0.160$ brctl addbr br0
> >> | s...@10.10.0.160$ ifconfig br0 up
> >> | s...@10.10.0.160$ echo 1 > /sys/class/net/bridge/br0/via_phys_dev
> >> | s...@10.10.0.160$ brctl addif br0 eth0
> >> | (...waiting a bit...)
> >> | s...@10.10.0.160$
> >
> > Why not:
> > 1. Setup bridge (and any other interfaces except eth0); includes bringing br0 up
> > 2. Add eth0 to bridge with new flag to inherit
> > a. brctl addif br0 eth0 inherit
> >
> > Inherit functionality would need to move address (Ether, IP, IPv6)
> > and routes from eth0 to br0.
> > I will see about doing it as much as possible in userspace.
>
> How about inheriting the up/down status as well, this way the bridge
> can be left down until the settings are inherited, and will come up
> with the inherited MAC address, IP address, and routing table instead
> of changing while live?
Ok.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-26 17:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-11 11:46 [RFC 0/5] bridge - introduce via_phys_dev feature Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-05-11 11:46 ` [RFC 1/5] net: bridge - use is_multicast_ether_addr helper Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-05-19 22:18 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-05-11 11:46 ` [RFC 2/5] net: bridge - add managing of BRCTL_SET_VIA_PHYS_DEV and BRCTL_SET_MASTER_DEV Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-05-11 11:46 ` [RFC 3/5] net: sk_buff - introduce br_seen field to mark skb issued by a bridge Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-05-11 11:46 ` [RFC 4/5] net: dev.c - introduce br_hard_xmit_hook Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-05-11 11:46 ` [RFC 5/5] net: bridge - handle via_phys_dev feature on a bridge level Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-05-11 13:01 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-05-12 5:30 ` [Bridge] [RFC 0/5] bridge - introduce via_phys_dev feature Daniel Robbins
2009-05-12 6:19 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-05-12 7:02 ` Daniel Robbins
2009-05-12 16:24 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-05-12 17:07 ` Daniel Robbins
2009-05-12 17:21 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2009-05-19 22:21 ` Stephen Hemminger
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2010-02-26 16:18 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-02-26 16:51 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-02-26 17:39 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2010-02-26 18:01 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-02-26 18:08 ` David Miller
2010-02-26 18:30 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-02-26 18:40 ` Ben Greear
2010-02-26 18:49 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-02-26 21:16 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2010-02-26 18:55 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-02-26 19:01 ` David Miller
2010-02-26 16:52 ` [Bridge] " richardvoigt
2010-02-26 17:25 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
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