From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: Is it valid to add a macvlan virtual interface to a bridge? If so, there seems to be a bug with it. Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:43:57 -0800 Message-ID: <4939CACD.5030609@candelatech.com> References: <20081204203352.9740c60e.ipng@69706e6720323030352d30312d31340a.nosense.org> <4937D494.8080202@trash.net> <4939683D.40406@candelatech.com> <20081206092448.0c83d606.ipng@69706e6720323030352d30312d31340a.nosense.org> <4939C269.4010609@candelatech.com> <20081205162608.43ab0864@s6510> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mark Smith , Patrick McHardy , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from mail.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.172]:54356 "EHLO ns3.lanforge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752385AbYLFAoI (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2008 19:44:08 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20081205162608.43ab0864@s6510> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Why bother, a macvlan is just a special case of a bridge, so why not > just bridge everything? You can add multiple mac-vlans to a single interface, but you can only add one bridge on top of that interface. If you need lots of (virtual) interfaces, bridges won't work as far as I can tell. Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com