Subject: Re: Is it valid to add a macvlan virtual interface to a bridge? If so, there seems to be a bug with it.

From: Ben Greear <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:43:57 -0800

Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> Why bother, a macvlan is just a special case of a bridge, so why not
> just bridge everything?

You can add multiple mac-vlans to a single interface, but you can only
add one bridge on top of that interface.

If you need lots of (virtual) interfaces, bridges won't work as far
as I can tell.

Thanks,
Ben

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