* Bridge extensions to iproute2
@ 2012-07-10 21:38 Maciej Żenczykowski
2012-07-10 21:58 ` Stephen Hemminger
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From: Maciej Żenczykowski @ 2012-07-10 21:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linux NetDev, Stephen Hemminger, David Miller
I can't quite seem to locate the bridge extensions to iproute2.
Mentioned for example at:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=b078f0df676233fc7ebc1ab270bd11ef5824bb64
I'm interested in finding a way to disable the stp and learning on a
bridge and manually from userspace configuring the mac forwarding
database.
[for basically a userspace STP implementation, which wouldn't actually
be a tree]
Can this be done?
Thanks,
- Maciej
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* Re: Bridge extensions to iproute2
2012-07-10 21:38 Bridge extensions to iproute2 Maciej Żenczykowski
@ 2012-07-10 21:58 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-07-10 22:01 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
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From: Stephen Hemminger @ 2012-07-10 21:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Maciej Żenczykowski; +Cc: Linux NetDev, David Miller
On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:38:25 -0700
Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@gmail.com> wrote:
> I can't quite seem to locate the bridge extensions to iproute2.
>
> Mentioned for example at:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=b078f0df676233fc7ebc1ab270bd11ef5824bb64
>
> I'm interested in finding a way to disable the stp and learning on a
> bridge and manually from userspace configuring the mac forwarding
> database.
> [for basically a userspace STP implementation, which wouldn't actually
> be a tree]
>
> Can this be done?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Maciej
I will get back to these. There wasn't a motivation to go fast because
there wasn't a user of these. Now with fdb offload support they are needed.
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* Re: Bridge extensions to iproute2
2012-07-10 21:58 ` Stephen Hemminger
@ 2012-07-10 22:01 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2012-07-10 22:06 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-08-02 0:07 ` Stephen Hemminger
0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Maciej Żenczykowski @ 2012-07-10 22:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stephen Hemminger; +Cc: Linux NetDev, David Miller
> I will get back to these. There wasn't a motivation to go fast because
> there wasn't a user of these. Now with fdb offload support they are needed.
Do you have some semi-ready patches that could be used for test purposes?
While it looks like the forwarding database capability is there in the kernel,
I can't currently find an interface to turn learning off.
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* Re: Bridge extensions to iproute2
2012-07-10 22:01 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
@ 2012-07-10 22:06 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-08-02 0:07 ` Stephen Hemminger
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From: Stephen Hemminger @ 2012-07-10 22:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Maciej Żenczykowski; +Cc: Linux NetDev, David Miller
On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:01:26 -0700
Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I will get back to these. There wasn't a motivation to go fast because
> > there wasn't a user of these. Now with fdb offload support they are needed.
>
> Do you have some semi-ready patches that could be used for test purposes?
>
> While it looks like the forwarding database capability is there in the kernel,
> I can't currently find an interface to turn learning off.
I'll put something in today.
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* Re: Bridge extensions to iproute2
2012-07-10 22:01 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2012-07-10 22:06 ` Stephen Hemminger
@ 2012-08-02 0:07 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-08-05 1:49 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
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From: Stephen Hemminger @ 2012-08-02 0:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Maciej Żenczykowski; +Cc: Linux NetDev, David Miller
On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:01:26 -0700
Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I will get back to these. There wasn't a motivation to go fast because
> > there wasn't a user of these. Now with fdb offload support they are needed.
>
> Do you have some semi-ready patches that could be used for test purposes?
>
> While it looks like the forwarding database capability is there in the kernel,
> I can't currently find an interface to turn learning off.
I cleaned it up an put in 3.5.0 just released version.
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* Re: Bridge extensions to iproute2
2012-08-02 0:07 ` Stephen Hemminger
@ 2012-08-05 1:49 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
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From: Maciej Żenczykowski @ 2012-08-05 1:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stephen Hemminger; +Cc: Linux NetDev, David Miller
Thanks. Would it make sense to merge bridge-utils / brctl into iproute2?
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:01:26 -0700
> Maciej Żenczykowski <zenczykowski@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > I will get back to these. There wasn't a motivation to go fast because
>> > there wasn't a user of these. Now with fdb offload support they are needed.
>>
>> Do you have some semi-ready patches that could be used for test purposes?
>>
>> While it looks like the forwarding database capability is there in the kernel,
>> I can't currently find an interface to turn learning off.
>
> I cleaned it up an put in 3.5.0 just released version.
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* Re: Bridge extensions to iproute2
@ 2012-08-05 2:45 Stephen Hemminger
2012-08-05 7:27 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
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From: Stephen Hemminger @ 2012-08-05 2:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Maciej Żenczykowski; +Cc: Stephen Hemminger, Linux NetDev, David Miller
There is barely any overlap between bridge-utils and iproute2.
I was thinking of making a script 'brctl' that does same thing as
old utility but using new netlink based commands.
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* Re: Bridge extensions to iproute2
2012-08-05 2:45 Stephen Hemminger
@ 2012-08-05 7:27 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
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From: Maciej Żenczykowski @ 2012-08-05 7:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stephen Hemminger; +Cc: Stephen Hemminger, Linux NetDev, David Miller
Yes, there really isn't much reason for bridge configuration to be a
separate package than iproute, seeing how there's vlan/veth etc
configuration built into 'ip'
On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Stephen Hemminger
<stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com> wrote:
> There is barely any overlap between bridge-utils and iproute2.
> I was thinking of making a script 'brctl' that does same thing as
> old utility but using new netlink based commands.
>
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