Linux Netfilter discussions
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Ambroz Bizjak <ambrop7@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NCD, a light scripting language for network configs and much more
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 12:07:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120817120702.62103ae4@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOA3yKLQNQ-t4VGENKTH683eLXA3A8GwPJ1w7zwT=AUus_CkFw@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:04:04 +0200
Ambroz Bizjak <ambrop7@gmail.com> wrote:

> Huh, really? I can't seem to find those commands. I only see a
> "bridge" program added to iproute2 which does "forwarding database
> management", and doesn't seem to have the usual addbr/addif commands.
> Anyway, if brctl did suddenly disappear, imagine how easier it would
> be to fix that script I showed you compared to fixing something
> hardcoded like NetworkManager :)
> 
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Stephen Hemminger
> <shemminger@vyatta.com> wrote:
> >
> > FYI - you can use ip commands now to control bridge.
> > For all the new features planned, they won't be controllable via brctl.

You can make a bridge with:
 # ip link add br3 type bridge

and delete with
 # ip link del br3

To add device to bridge
 # ip li set dev eth2 master br3

To take out of bridge
 # ip li set dev eth2 nomaster

The point is that bridge isn't special.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-17 19:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-17 10:03 NCD, a light scripting language for network configs and much more Ambroz Bizjak
2012-08-17 16:22 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-08-17 19:04   ` Ambroz Bizjak
2012-08-17 19:07     ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2012-08-17 19:16       ` Ambroz Bizjak

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20120817120702.62103ae4@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net \
    --to=shemminger@vyatta.com \
    --cc=ambrop7@gmail.com \
    --cc=netfilter@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox