From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Robbins Subject: Re: [Bridge] [RFC 0/5] bridge - introduce via_phys_dev feature Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 23:30:33 -0600 Message-ID: References: <20090511114639.440944109@openvz.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Stephen Hemminger , netdev@vger.kernel.org, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, davem@davemloft.net, xemul@openvz.org To: Cyrill Gorcunov Return-path: Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.92.27]:5700 "EHLO qw-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752120AbZELFac convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 May 2009 01:30:32 -0400 Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 5so2055960qwd.37 for ; Mon, 11 May 2009 22:30:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090511114639.440944109@openvz.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Note: I am not a bridge guru but I'm interested in understanding this new functionality better. What is the larger benefit of this feature? Does this make it possible to configure a bridge setup on a remote system without losing connectivity? I can't do many kinds of network changes remotely without risking losing connectivity (ie. changing IP address, messing with routing, etc. -- it would be likely that you'd lose network connectivity :) ) Therefore, I don't know if this is a benefit unless it is needed for a particular application. Is this useful for OpenVZ in some way? Regards, Daniel On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Cyrill Gorcunov = wrote: > Hi, > > here is RFC for new via_phys_dev bridge feature. > In short -- it allows to use some bridge port as > bridge itself with already configured routing table. > > More details with example you may found in patches. > > Please review. Any (including _complains_) comments are > highly appreciated! > > The series is on top of current -net-next-2.6 > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0| commit ed9b58bc443a1210b5be1ded6421b17e0= 15bf985 > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0| Author Richard Genoud > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0| Date Sat May 9 06:59:16 2009 +0000 > > Cyrill > _______________________________________________ > Bridge mailing list > Bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org > https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge >