From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [RFC] iproute2: add br command Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 15:27:58 -0700 Message-ID: <20111004152758.3c5efc22@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> References: <20111004093413.2f6bbd67@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> <20111004140754.0e677941@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> <1317766638.21658.11.camel@w-sridhar.beaverton.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andi Kleen , Kevin Wilson , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Sridhar Samudrala Return-path: Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:33747 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933180Ab1JDW2E (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Oct 2011 18:28:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1317766638.21658.11.camel@w-sridhar.beaverton.ibm.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:17:18 -0700 Sridhar Samudrala wrote: > On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 14:07 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 09:58:55 -0700 > > Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > > Stephen Hemminger writes: > > > > > > > This adds a new 'br' command which is the bridging equivalent of > > > > the ip command. More of a demo of how to use netlink and bridging > > > > at this point. > > > > > > Please name it "bridge", not "br" > > > > > > -Andi > > > > Ok, but it breaks the existing pattern. > > Is this supposed to replace brctl utility? > > Can we add/delete a bridge and add/delete interfaces to a bridge using > this command? > > If so, why not make it > ip bridge add/del > ip bridge addif/delif > You can already use 'ip link' to add/delete bridge, and add interface to bridge by setting master.