From: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
To: Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, shemminger@vyatta.com,
davem@davemloft.net, or.gerlitz@gmail.com, jhs@mojatatu.com,
mst@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 00/12] Add basic VLAN support to bridges
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:13:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50D1CB76.50202@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121219101006.7086faef@pixies.home.jungo.com>
On 12/19/2012 03:10 AM, Shmulik Ladkani wrote:
> Thanks Vlad,
>
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:00:51 -0500 Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com> wrote:
>> A single vlan may also be designated as untagged. Any untagged traffic
>> recieved by the port will be assigned to this vlan.
>
> Why the "untagged vlan" is per-bridge global?
> Usually, 802.1q switches define the PVID (port's VID) which controls
> the value of VID, in case ingress frame is either untagged or
> priority-tagged (per port configuration).
> This gives greater flexibility.
It's not. There is a per port untagged pointer where you can designate
which VLAN is untagged/native on a port. The bride interface itself
can also function as a port, so it gets its own untagged pointer so
it can behave similar to port.
>
>> Any traffic exiting
>> the port with a VID matching the untagged vlan will exit untagged (the
>> bridge will strip the vlan header). This is similar to "Native Vlan" support
>> available in most switches.
>
> 802.1q switches usually allow conifguring per-vlan, per-port
> tagged/untagged egress policy: each vid has its port membership map and
> an accompanying port egress-policy map.
> This gives great flexibility defining all sorts of configurations.
Right, and that's what's provided here.
* Each VLAN has port membership map (net_bridge_vlan.portgroup).
* Each port has a list of vlans configured as well
(net_port_vlan.vlan_list).
* Each port also has a single vlan that can be untagged
(net_bridge_port.untagged).
* The bridge also has a single untagged vlan (net_bridge.untagged)
The limitation (in switches as well) is that only a single VLAN
may be untagged on any 1 port. If you have more then 1, you don't know
which VLAN the untagged traffic belongs to.
>
> Personally, I'd prefer a fully flexible vlan bridge allowing all sorts
> of configurations (as available in 802.1q switches).
>
> What's the reason limiting such configurations?
So, what do you see that's missing?
-vlad
>
> Regards,
> Shmulik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-19 14:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-18 19:00 [PATCH V2 00/12] Add basic VLAN support to bridges Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-18 19:00 ` [PATCH V2 01/12] bridge: Add vlan filtering infrastructure Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-18 21:13 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-12-18 21:26 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-18 19:00 ` [PATCH V2 02/12] bridge: Validate that vlan is permitted on ingress Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-18 19:00 ` [PATCH V2 03/12] bridge: Verify that a vlan is allowed to egress on give port Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-18 19:00 ` [PATCH V2 04/12] bridge: Cache vlan in the cb for faster egress lookup Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-18 19:00 ` [PATCH V2 05/12] bridge: Add vlan to unicast fdb entries Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-18 19:00 ` [PATCH V2 06/12] bridge: Add vlan id to multicast groups Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-18 19:00 ` [PATCH V2 07/12] bridge: Add netlink interface to configure vlans on bridge ports Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-18 19:00 ` [PATCH V2 08/12] bridge: Add vlan support to static neighbors Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-18 19:01 ` [PATCH V2 09/12] bridge: Add the ability to configure untagged vlans Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-18 23:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-12-18 23:03 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-18 23:10 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-12-19 14:50 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-18 23:04 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-12-19 1:06 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-18 19:01 ` [PATCH V2 10/12] bridge: Implement untagged vlan handling Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-18 19:01 ` [PATCH V2 11/12] bridge: Dump vlan information from a bridge port Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-18 19:01 ` [PATCH V2 12/12] bridge: Add vlan support for local fdb entries Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-18 22:32 ` [PATCH V2 00/12] Add basic VLAN support to bridges Jiri Pirko
2012-12-18 22:46 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-19 8:27 ` Jiri Pirko
2012-12-19 16:25 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-19 17:04 ` Thomas Graf
2012-12-19 17:11 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-19 17:19 ` Jiri Pirko
2012-12-19 17:20 ` Thomas Graf
2012-12-19 8:10 ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-12-19 14:13 ` Vlad Yasevich [this message]
2012-12-19 19:37 ` Shmulik Ladkani
2012-12-19 20:03 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-19 22:59 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-20 7:00 ` Shmulik Ladkani
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