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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, roopa@cumulusnetworks.com,
	bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, stephen@networkplumber.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: bridge: add per-port group_fwd_mask with less restrictions
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 06:04:18 +0100 (WEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170929.060418.1634372835635805803.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1506517964-17479-1-git-send-email-nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>

From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 16:12:44 +0300

> We need to be able to transparently forward most link-local frames via
> tunnels (e.g. vxlan, qinq). Currently the bridge's group_fwd_mask has a
> mask which restricts the forwarding of STP and LACP, but we need to be able
> to forward these over tunnels and control that forwarding on a per-port
> basis thus add a new per-port group_fwd_mask option which only disallows
> mac pause frames to be forwarded (they're always dropped anyway).
> The patch does not change the current default situation - all of the others
> are still restricted unless configured for forwarding.
> We have successfully tested this patch with LACP and STP forwarding over
> VxLAN and qinq tunnels.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>

Applied, thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-29 11:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-27 13:12 [PATCH net-next] net: bridge: add per-port group_fwd_mask with less restrictions Nikolay Aleksandrov
2017-09-29  5:04 ` David Miller [this message]
2017-09-29 15:14 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-09-29 21:01   ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2017-09-29 21:51     ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-09-29 22:11       ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2017-09-29 22:21         ` Roopa Prabhu

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