Simon Barber <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 22/08/2009 16:34:11: > > Hi Joakim, > > Look back a month or so in the archives - you'll find an email from me > referencing a patch to make the bridge VLAN aware. It's a little old, > and needs updating for 2.6 (it was written for 2.4) - but should not be > much work to get it done. There is a matching patch for the brctl utility. > > Simon > Thanks Simon Do you mean the "bridge vlan integration" patch? It is not clear to me if this would support the case described in B.1.3(802.1Q-2005), does it? Seems like there is little interest to post this to 2.6 and I am not sure how welcome this would be either, perhaps the bridge maintainer could comment? Jocke > > Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > > This is probably no news to experienced bridge and VLAN users but I just learned the > > hard way that Shared VLAN learning(SVL) isn't supported > > by the linux bridge making it impossible to support configurations described in B.1.3 > > Basically the bride needs to be made VLAN aware and the VLAN code needs to be adopted > > to allow this. > > > > I figured I should mention it in case it is just an oversight. It does not > look like a simple > > job though. > > > > Jocke > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Bridge mailing list > > Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge > > > > > _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
