From: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat•com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta•com>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, davem@davemloft•net, mst@redhat•com,
john.r.fastabend@intel•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] Add basic VLAN support to bridges
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:12:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50C8E521.9090900@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121212120541.72ba1ba9@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
On 12/12/2012 03:05 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:01:06 -0500
> Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat•com> wrote:
>
>> This series of patches provides an ability to add VLANs to the bridge
>> ports. This is similar to what can be found in most switches. The bridge
>> port may have any number of VLANs added to it including vlan 0 priority tagged
>> traffic. When vlans are added to the port, only traffic tagged with particular
>> vlan will forwarded over this port. Additionally, vlan ids are added to FDB
>> entries and become part of the lookup. This way we correctly identify the FDB
>> entry.
>>
>> A single vlan may also be designated as untagged. Any untagged traffic
>> recieved by the port will be assigned to this vlan. Any traffic exiting
>> the port with a VID matching the untagged vlan will exit untagged (the
>> bridge will strip the vlan header). This is similar to "Native Vlan" support
>> available in most switches.
>>
>> The default behavior ofthe bridge is unchanged if no vlans have been
>> configured.
>
> My concern is that all older configurations must continue to work.
> Is it still unchanged if a vlan device is added to the bridge, or vlan is
> configured on an ethernet that has been added to the bridge?
>
Yes. I've tested with vlans under the bridge and on top of the bridge.
This code doesn't have any effect if the no filtering is configured.
I am finishing changes to iproute to do the configuration.
-vlad
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-12 20:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-12 20:01 [PATCH 00/11] Add basic VLAN support to bridges Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-12 20:01 ` [PATCH 01/11] bridge: Add vlan filtering infrastructure Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-12 20:01 ` [PATCH 02/11] bridge: Validate that vlan is permitted on ingress Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-12 20:01 ` [PATCH 03/11] bridge: Verify that a vlan is allowed to egress on give port Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-12 20:01 ` [PATCH 04/11] bridge: Cache vlan in the cb for faster egress lookup Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-18 17:04 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-12-18 17:50 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-12 20:01 ` [PATCH 05/11] bridge: Add vlan to unicast fdb entries Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-12 20:01 ` [PATCH 06/11] bridge: Add vlan id to multicast groups Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-12 20:01 ` [PATCH 07/11] bridge: Add netlink interface to configure vlans on bridge ports Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-12 20:01 ` [PATCH 08/11] bridge: Add vlan support to static neighbors Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-12 20:01 ` [PATCH 09/11] bridge: Add the ability to configure untagged vlans Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-12 20:01 ` [PATCH 10/11] bridge: Implement untagged vlan handling Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-12 20:01 ` [PATCH 11/11] bridge: Dump vlan information from a bridge port Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-18 17:03 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-12-18 17:51 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-12 20:05 ` [PATCH 00/11] Add basic VLAN support to bridges Stephen Hemminger
2012-12-12 20:12 ` Vlad Yasevich [this message]
2012-12-12 22:54 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-12-12 23:36 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-13 17:47 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-12-13 18:53 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-13 19:00 ` David Miller
2012-12-13 19:04 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-12-13 20:17 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-13 22:02 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-12-13 22:37 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-13 22:37 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-12-13 22:56 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-14 16:50 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-14 21:59 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-15 20:52 ` Vlad Yasevich
2012-12-15 21:04 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-13 20:28 ` David Miller
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