Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 2/2] bridge netlink dump interface at par with brctl Actually better than brctl showmacs because we can filter by bridge port in the kernel

From: Jamal Hadi Salim <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2014 08:24:02 -0400

Additional note:
This is also on top of Roopa's patch.

cheers,
jamal

On 06/01/14 08:16, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
>
> This is mostly to you Vlad since you brought it up earlier.
> I ended using ifm instead of ndm. Currently there is lack of
> symettry - we send requests with ifm and get responses with
> ndms. Unfortunately after spending 2-3 hours I came to the
> conclusion i cant change it without breaking old iproute2s that
> were expecting this behavior. What we have here is a magnitude
> better filtering but we could have done slightly better if we
> were able to use an ndm. A little acrobatics later on to filter
> by vlans may work..
>
> cheers,
> jamal
>