Hi all, I'm wondering about the current userspace toolset to control bridging in the Linux kernel. As far as I can determine, functionality is a bit scattered right now between the iproute2 (ip, bridge) and bridge-utils (brctl) tools:
- creating/deleting bridges: ip or brctl - adding/deleting ports to/from bridge: brctl only - showing bridge fdb: brctl (in-kernel fdb), bridge (hardware offloaded fdb) (!) ...and no doubt a few other things. Also the brctl tool seems not to be getting updates, whereas the iproute2 tools are of course updated regularly. Is brctl considered obsolete? If that is the case, would patches to add the missing functionality into the bridge tool be welcome? I'm thinking primarily of creating/deleting bridges, and adding/deleting ports in bridges. -- Bert Vermeulen b...@biot.com
