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Subject: Re: Bridge extensions to iproute2
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 00:27:36 -0700
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Yes, there really isn't much reason for bridge configuration to be a
separate package than iproute, seeing how there's vlan/veth etc
configuration built into 'ip'

On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Stephen Hemminger
<stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com> wrote:
> There is barely any overlap between bridge-utils and iproute2.
> I was thinking of making a script 'brctl' that does same thing as
> old utility but using new netlink based commands.
>