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From: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
To: chriss <mail_to_chriss@gmx.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.37 regression: adding main interface to a bridge breaks vlan interface RX
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 18:24:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinJ3ga46FfvPJCnxSH129mSC2TCdPRSXwu+iiJo@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20110206T203347-475@post.gmane.org>

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:37 AM, chriss <mail_to_chriss@gmx.net> wrote:
> Jesse Gross <jesse <at> nicira.com> writes:
>
>>
>> You should either attached a bridge to a vlan device or stack a vlan
>> device on the bridge port depending on what you are trying to achieve.
>>
>> The bridge handler takes all packets of the device that it is attached
>> to, so having a vlan also attached to the same device will not work.
>> You may get different results on older kernels depending on what NIC
>> you were using but that was a bug.
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>
>
> Hi and thanks for your reply
>
> I tried that.
>
> I had under 2.6.36.3 following combination:
>
> eth1 in br0 -> all traffic without vlan id
> eth1.3 -> traffic with vlan 3
>
> with 2.6.37 i should do the following
> eth1 in br0 -> traffic w/o vlans
> and br0.3 -> traffic with vlan id 3
>
> But still there is no rx for vlan 3.
> Any suggestions? Or am i missing something?

That configuration should work (and I've tested it in the past).  I
would try running tcpdump on the various interfaces in the path (eth1,
br0, br0.3) to see where traffic is flowing or not.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-08  2:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-16 14:09 2.6.37 regression: adding main interface to a bridge breaks vlan interface RX Simon Arlott
2011-01-17 16:00 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-01-17 18:17   ` Simon Arlott
2011-01-19 16:26     ` Jesse Gross
2011-01-23 17:45 ` Maciej Rutecki
2011-01-23 21:29   ` Jesse Gross
2011-01-24 15:25     ` Maciej Rutecki
2011-02-05 15:34       ` chriss
2011-02-06 18:09         ` Jesse Gross
2011-02-06 19:37           ` chriss
2011-02-07 12:09             ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-02-14 13:22               ` chriss
2011-02-23  1:35                 ` Jesse Gross
2011-02-25 22:57                 ` Jesse Gross
2011-02-26  0:16                   ` chriss
2011-02-26  1:08                     ` Jesse Gross
2011-02-26 11:51                       ` chriss
2011-02-28 21:37                         ` Jesse Gross
2011-03-01 10:16                           ` Francois Romieu
2011-03-01 20:04                             ` Jesse Gross
2011-03-01 21:52                             ` Francois Romieu
2011-03-04 19:32                               ` chriss
2011-03-04 22:41                                 ` Francois Romieu
2011-03-05 10:53                                   ` chriss
2011-02-08  2:24             ` Jesse Gross [this message]

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