On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 06:37:50PM -0700, John McGuigan wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2020, 6:05 PM Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > > > > > bridge (and theoretically switch but I never got it to do anything > > useful) make a group of ports act like a network switch (maybe with > > filtering between the ports). > > > > I've been having issues with switch (4) as well... The reason I decided to > go for switch vs bridge on my APU2 is that, from what I understood, bridge > invokes some ugly locks in the kernel whereas switch was written without as > big of locks in mind. I could be wrong here but maybe someone can correct > me.
>From my knowledge switch has the same limitation as bridge(4) when it comes to locks. Both require the big kernel lock to operate. > I have a feeling there is something wrong with switch(4) but I haven't been > able to independently test that. switch(4) is mostly for people that want to play with SDN and should not be used as bridge(4) replacement. It is far from finished. -- :wq Claudio
