Subject: Re: RFC: bridge get fdb by bridge device

From: John Fastabend <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 08:03:03 -0800

On 2/13/2014 7:37 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> On 02/12/14 13:50, John Fastabend wrote:
>> On 2/11/2014 1:04 PM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
>>
>> Because it is not the same type of object as the software bridge.
>> Most notably it doesn't do learning.
>
> This kept nagging at me.
> Learning is optional for a bridge. So is flooding.
> I think we got this right in recent kernels.
>
> cheers,
> jamal

Yeah I remember now Vlad added them. The real distinction
is macvlan devices only have _one_ uplink port and support
other forwarding modes, VEPA, etc.