On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 16:28:45 -0500 Vlad Yasevich <vyase...@redhat.com> wrote:
> The series adds an ability to configure the bridge into a non-primiscuous > mode. Instead, it provides the ability to identitfy some set of bridge > ports as uplinks and allows for MAC addresses to be programmed onto > those ports. In case the port hardware does not support mac filter, > that port will be placed in promiscuous mode. > > Default bridge operation continues to remain as "promiscuous". The new > functionality has to be enabled via sysfs (similar to other bridge > extensions). > > The uplink mode is implemented as a flag on a bridge port. The api to > change that flag follows the existing api to enable/disable other existing > flags. > > All comments are welcome. > Can we make this a one step process and less visible to the user. If user defines an uplink device, and the uplink device is capable of filtering (and what ever other pre-conditions people can think of), then the bridge will transparently switch to uplink/non-promisc mode. This can also be used to trigger edge only mode in RSTP in the future. Less knobs.
