From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Cc: "davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>,
bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] bridge: neigh msg proxy and flood suppression support
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 11:02:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171002110224.4d789600@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJieiUim2XLMGAomb3S5AeWfYqjxV_raetedWcA_PBiaGPRHWg@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 2 Oct 2017 07:49:09 -0700
Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 9:36 PM, Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com> wrote:
> > From: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
> >
> > This series implements arp and nd suppression in the bridge
> > driver for ethernet vpns. It implements rfc7432, section 10
> > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7432#section-10
> > for ethernet VPN deployments. It is similar to the existing
> > BR_ARP_PROXY flag but has a few semantic differences to conform
> > to EVPN standard. In case of EVPN, it is mainly used to avoid flooding to
> > tunnel ports like vxlan/mpls. Unlike the existing flags it suppresses flood
> > of all neigh discovery packets (arp, nd) to tunnel ports.
> >
> > Roopa Prabhu (3):
> > bridge: add new BR_NEIGH_SUPPRESS port flag to suppress arp and nd
> > flood
> > neigh arp suppress first
> > bridge: suppress nd messages from going to BR_NEIGH_SUPPRESS ports
> >
>
> pls ignore, shows conflict applying over recent net-next bridge
> changes. Will rebase and submit v2.
Ok, but the concept looks good.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-02 18:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-02 4:36 [PATCH net-next 0/3] bridge: neigh msg proxy and flood suppression support Roopa Prabhu
2017-10-02 4:36 ` [PATCH net-next 1/3] bridge: add new BR_NEIGH_SUPPRESS port flag to suppress arp and nd flood Roopa Prabhu
2017-10-02 4:36 ` [PATCH net-next 2/3] bridge: suppress arp pkts on BR_NEIGH_SUPPRESS ports Roopa Prabhu
2017-10-03 20:14 ` kbuild test robot
2017-10-02 4:36 ` [PATCH net-next 3/3] bridge: suppress nd " Roopa Prabhu
2017-10-03 5:53 ` kbuild test robot
2017-10-02 14:49 ` [PATCH net-next 0/3] bridge: neigh msg proxy and flood suppression support Roopa Prabhu
2017-10-02 18:02 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
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