Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] Add basic VLAN support to bridges

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:37:12 -0800

On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:37:03 -0500
Jamal Hadi Salim <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On 12-12-13 05:02 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:17:30 -0500
> 
> >
> > Nah, no reinvention, people who want to do filtering and bridging
> > just use openvswitch instead.
> 
> 
> so says the maintainer of bridging and iproute2.
> Why cant i use bridging as is and iproute2/tc filter action?
> What is the impediment for you my friend? command line cryptic,
> performance problem - what is it?
> 
> cheers,
> jamal
> 
> 

You can, run any action before it hits the bridge.