This is the thread we discussed such change last year:

http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/10110-New-network-configuration-with-bridge-vlan-interfaces

>From what I see, there were problems when using bonds and vlans.

The main advantage of the current approach is that vlan tagging can be done by 
hardware,
but that is maybe not really a big advantage?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Montag, 28. Jänner 2013 07:27
> To: Dietmar Maurer
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH] pve-common: PVE/Network: rework of
> activate_bridge_vlan
> 
> I don't get your idea. What do you mean? Why should there be unnecessary
> untag/tag operations?
> 
> Stefan
> 
> Am 28.01.2013 um 06:25 schrieb Dietmar Maurer <[email protected]>:
> 
> >> But setting the vlan on the bridge involve unnecessary tag/untag
> >> operations which are avoided with the current setup.
> >>
> >> Please can you try to set the gvrp flag of the tap device instead
> >> (after adding it to the bridge). Or is that a bad idea?
> >
> > Sigh - I am still wrong. There is simply no vlan tag on the tap devices.
> > So if you use a private bridge, pve does not set any VLAN tags, and
> > thus GVRP will not be involved.
> >
> > But this behavior looks correct to me?
> >


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