From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] bridge: neigh msg proxy and flood suppression support Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 11:02:24 -0700 Message-ID: <20171002110224.4d789600@xeon-e3> References: <1506919018-27875-1-git-send-email-roopa@cumulusnetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "davem@davemloft.net" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , Nikolay Aleksandrov , bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Roopa Prabhu Return-path: Received: from mail-pf0-f177.google.com ([209.85.192.177]:43444 "EHLO mail-pf0-f177.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751236AbdJBSCc (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Oct 2017 14:02:32 -0400 Received: by mail-pf0-f177.google.com with SMTP id d2so72533pfh.0 for ; Mon, 02 Oct 2017 11:02:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2 Oct 2017 07:49:09 -0700 Roopa Prabhu wrote: > On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 9:36 PM, Roopa Prabhu wrote: > > From: Roopa Prabhu > > > > 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.