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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de>
To: Scott Feldman <scofeldm@cisco•com>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat•com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta•com>,
	Stefan Berger <stefanb@us•ibm.com>,
	Dirk Herrendoerfer <d.herrendoerfer@de•ibm.com>,
	Vivek Kashyap <vivk@us•ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] IFLA_PORT_* iproute2 cmd line
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 09:00:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201005270900.29776.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C8228316.35508%scofeldm@cisco.com>

On Wednesday 26 May 2010, Scott Feldman wrote:
> On 5/26/10 5:38 AM, "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb•de> wrote:
> 
> How does this strike you?
> 
>   Usage: ip link add link DEV [ name ] NAME
>                      [ txqueuelen PACKETS ]
>                      [ address LLADDR ]
>                      [ broadcast LLADDR ]
>                      [ mtu MTU ]
>                      type TYPE [ ARGS ]
>          ip link delete DEV type TYPE [ ARGS ]
> 
>          ip link set DEVICE [ { up | down } ]
>                             [ arp { on | off } ]
>                             [ dynamic { on | off } ]
>                             [ multicast { on | off } ]
>                             [ allmulticast { on | off } ]
>                             [ promisc { on | off } ]
>                             [ trailers { on | off } ]
>                             [ txqueuelen PACKETS ]
>                             [ name NEWNAME ]
>                             [ address LLADDR ]
>                             [ broadcast LLADDR ]
>                             [ mtu MTU ]
>                             [ netns PID ]
>                             [ alias NAME ]
> +                           [ virtualport MODE {PROFILE|VSI} ]
>                             [ vf NUM [ mac LLADDR ]
>                                      [ vlan VLANID [ qos VLAN-QOS ] ]
> -                                    [ rate TXRATE ] ]
> +                                    [ rate TXRATE ]
> +                                    [ virtualport MODE {PROFILE|VSI} ] ]
>          ip link show [ DEVICE ]
> 
>   TYPE := { vlan | veth | vcan | dummy | ifb | macvlan | can }
> +
> + MODE := { associate | preassociate | preassociaterr | disassociate }
> +
> + PROFILE := port-profile PORT-PROFILE
> +            [ instance-uuid INSTANCE-UUID ]
> +            [ host-uuid HOST-UUID ]
> + 
> + VSI := vsi managerid MGR typeid VTID typeidversion VER
> +        [ instance-uuid INSTANCE-UUID ]

Right, exactly what I was thinking of. I would probably use
some shorter keywords (virtual-port -> port, port-profile -> profile,
instance-uuid -> instance, host-uuid -> host), but I really
don't have a strong opionion on that, so I'f fine with
whatever you and others come up with in that regard.

> > The more interesting question is how to do this when we
> > talk to lldpad. One idea was to use the same protocol
> > but to direct the message to a specific pid (that of lldpad).
> > That would require adding an option like '-p PID' to ip
> > that lets us change who we talk to.
> 
> Let me get the user-to-kernel part working to establish the cmd line and you
> can follow up with alternative addressing schemes.

ok.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-27  7:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-26  3:19 [RFC] IFLA_PORT_* iproute2 cmd line Scott Feldman
2010-05-26 12:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-26 14:49   ` Scott Feldman
2010-05-27  7:00     ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
     [not found]   ` <OFCF88A167.122DD206-ON8525772F.00470999-8525772F.0047F4A5@us.ibm.com>
2010-05-26 15:56     ` Chris Wright
     [not found]       ` <OFB3363EDA.945755DA-ON8525772F.0057CBD1-8525772F.00589D2B@us.ibm.com>
2010-05-26 16:15         ` Arnd Bergmann

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