Re: Missing iproute2 support for 802.1ad

[Michael Leun <lkml20130126@newton.leun.net>]

On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 17:37:44 +0200
Michael Leun <lkml20130126@newton.leun.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:52:41 +0300
> Rami Rosen <roszenrami@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > This patch by Patrick McHardy, titled:
> > "add 802.1ad support", seems to do the job:
> > http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg233587.html

> OK, when applying that patch to iproute2 git the if_link.h hunk
> expectedly fails, but the rest applies.

Meanwhile Stephen has grabbed that patch and committed it to iproute2
git - thank you very much.

> But, unfortunately the result is not what I would expect:
[...]
> Both have ether type 0x8100, the first one should have 0x88a8, or did
> I get something wrong?

This either was an problem with veth or with namespace or with both of
them.

With real ethernet I get the same result Patrick has shown in his
802.1aq commit message.

-- 
MfG,

Michael Leun