On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 02:11:06PM +0200, Kurt Kanzenbach wrote: > When VLAN awareness is disabled, the packet is still classified with the > pvid. But, later all rules regarding VLANs (except for the PCP field) > are ignored then. So, the programmed pvid doesn't matter in this case. Ok, clear now. > The only way to implement the non-filtering bridge behavior is this > flag. However, this has some more implications. For instance when > there's a non filtering bridge, then standalone mode doesn't work > anymore due to the VLAN unawareness. This is not a problem at the > moment, because there are only two ports. But, later when there are more > ports, then having two ports in a non-filtering bridge and one in > standalone mode doesn't work. That's another limitation that needs to be > considered when adding more ports later on. Well, then you have feedback to bring to the hardware engineers when switches with more than 2 user ports will be instantiated. > Besides that problem everything else seem to work now in accordance to > the expected Linux behavior with roper restrictions in place. Ok, that's great.
