Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:18:43AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: >> Looking back at this. What if the API was simpler: Thanks for the reply, Stephen! >> Why not: >> 1. Setup bridge (and any other interfaces except eth0); includes bringing br0 up >> 2. Add eth0 to bridge with new flag to inherit >> a. brctl addif br0 eth0 inherit >> >> Inherit functionality would need to move address (Ether, IP, IPv6) >> and routes from eth0 to br0. >> I will see about doing it as much as possible in userspace. >> Solution is good, but we'll have to reconfigure netfilter matches that check for device name/ifindex and restore all this back when deleting eth0 from br0. Maybe it's better to implement it on the kernel side by sending a netdev notification and letting the subsystem reconfigure themselves? And what can we do with existing TCP connections bound to a device? > -- Cyrill _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
