Thread (45 messages) 45 messages, 6 authors, 2012-08-30

Re: [RFC PATCH bridge 0/5] Add basic VLAN support to bridges

From: Nicolas de Pesloüan <hidden>
Date: 2012-08-23 21:02:07

Le 23/08/2012 21:29, Vlad Yasevich a écrit :
This series of patches provides an ability to add VLAN IDs 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 for untagged
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.

There are still pieces missing.  I don't yet support adding a static fdb entry
with a particular vlan.  There is no netlink support for carrying a vlan id.

I'd like to hear thoughts of whether this is usufull and something we should
persue.
Do you think this might allow for per VLAN spanning tree (having ports in forwarding state or 
blocking state depending on the VLAN) in the future?

	Nicolas.
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