Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH net-next] net/hanic: Add the hanic network interface for high availability links

Jiri Pirko
2022-11-23T13:00:55Z

Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 09:57:46PM CET, steve.williams@getcruise.com wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 5:55 AM Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Neither bond nor team have forwarding between ports built in, right?
>> Forwarding is pretty fundamental to 802.1CB (at least to the use cases
>> I know of).
>
>This driver also does not forward between ports. My intent wasn't to
>implement a bridge,
>but an endpoint. If forwarding between ports is desired, then perhaps
>you want a bridge?
>I think some other 802.1cb offerings on this list took that approach,
>but didn't seem to
>handle the endpoint case well.

Okay, could you then reply to my question asked earlier in this thread
why don't you implement this a part of bond/team instead of a new driver?

Thanks!

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