From: "Nicolas de Pesloüan" <nicolas.2p.debian@gmail.com>
To: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH bridge 0/5] Add basic VLAN support to bridges
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 23:03:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50369A99.2070405@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1345750195-31598-1-git-send-email-vyasevic@redhat.com>
Le 23/08/2012 21:29, Vlad Yasevich a écrit :
> This series of patches provides an ability to add VLAN IDs to the bridge
> ports. This is similar to what can be found in most switches. The bridge
> port may have any number of VLANs added to it including vlan 0 for untagged
> traffic. When vlans are added to the port, only traffic tagged with particular
> vlan will forwarded over this port. Additionally, vlan ids are added to FDB
> entries and become part of the lookup. This way we correctly identify the FDB
> entry.
>
> There are still pieces missing. I don't yet support adding a static fdb entry
> with a particular vlan. There is no netlink support for carrying a vlan id.
>
> I'd like to hear thoughts of whether this is usufull and something we should
> persue.
>
Do you think this might allow for per VLAN spanning tree (having ports in forwarding state or
blocking state depending on the VLAN) in the future?
Nicolas.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-23 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-23 19:29 [RFC PATCH bridge 0/5] Add basic VLAN support to bridges Vlad Yasevich
2012-08-23 19:29 ` [RFC PATCH bridge 1/5] bridge: Add vlan check to forwarding path Vlad Yasevich
2012-08-23 20:58 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2012-08-30 12:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-23 19:29 ` [RFC PATCH bridge 2/5] bridge: Add vlan to unicast fdb entries Vlad Yasevich
2012-08-23 19:39 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-08-23 19:42 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-08-30 14:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-30 14:48 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-08-30 15:45 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-30 16:07 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-08-23 19:29 ` [RFC PATCH bridge 3/5] bridge: Add vlan id to multicast groups Vlad Yasevich
2012-08-30 12:30 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-30 12:55 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-08-23 19:29 ` [RFC PATCH bridge 4/5] bridge: Add private ioctls to configure vlans on bridge ports Vlad Yasevich
2012-08-23 19:38 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-08-23 19:41 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-08-24 17:56 ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-08-24 18:11 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-08-24 18:19 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-08-30 12:17 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-23 19:29 ` [RFC PATCH bridge 5/5] bridge: Add sysfs interface to display VLANS Vlad Yasevich
2012-08-30 12:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-30 14:05 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-08-30 14:26 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-30 14:36 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-08-30 14:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-30 14:51 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-08-30 15:03 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-30 15:07 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-08-30 15:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-30 15:52 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-08-30 15:58 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-23 19:41 ` [RFC PATCH bridge 0/5] Add basic VLAN support to bridges Stephen Hemminger
2012-08-23 19:53 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-08-23 21:03 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan [this message]
2012-08-23 21:12 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-08-24 2:52 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-08-24 20:44 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-08-24 21:09 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2012-08-30 12:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-30 13:37 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-08-30 14:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-30 14:41 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-08-30 14:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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