Subject: Re: [RFC] bridge and friends: reduce TheLinuxWay(tm)

From: Jamal Hadi Salim <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 15:02:04 -0400

On 10/16/13 14:50, Vlad Yasevich wrote:

> Right.  ip link show is dumb.  It asks for info from all devices and
> then filters based on the device you asked for, but the filtering
> is done in iproute instead of the kernel.
>

That maybe small flaw in iproute2 - but there's no issue in the kernel.
You can send an ifi and specify the proper ifindex of choice.
But you cant do the same with bridge.
Thats what i was whining to Stephen about. I get every
bridge port with no exception and there's no way to specify one
(the ifi ifindex is never used).
Think 20K bridge ports - each giving me 1K of data ...
scalability problem

cheers,
jamal