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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, roopa@cumulusnetworks.com, dsahern@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 net-next] bridge: add support for backup port
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 08:40:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181012084028.5a64747f@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181012114255.17217-1-nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>

On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 14:42:55 +0300
Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com> wrote:

> This patch adds support for the new backup port option that can be set
> on a bridge port. If the port's carrier goes down all of the traffic
> gets redirected to the configured backup port. We add the following new
> arguments:
> $ ip link set dev brport type bridge_slave backup_port brport2
> $ ip link set dev brport type bridge_slave nobackup_port
> 
> $ bridge link set dev brport backup_port brport2
> $ bridge link set dev brport nobackup_port
> 
> The man pages are updated respectively.
> Also 2 minor style adjustments:
> - add missing space to bridge man page's state argument
> - use lower starting case for vlan_tunnel in ip-link man page (to be
> consistent with the rest)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>

This seems a bit like feature creep in the bridge.
Why not use team or bonding?

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-12 23:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-12 11:42 [PATCH iproute2 net-next] bridge: add support for backup port Nikolay Aleksandrov
2018-10-12 15:40 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2018-10-12 16:01   ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2018-10-14  2:30 ` David Ahern

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