(2014/05/15 21:55), Toshiaki Makita wrote: > (2014/05/15 0:09), Vlad Yasevich wrote: >> This series adds functionality to the bridge device to enable >> operations without setting all ports to promiscuous mode. >> >> The basic concept is this. The bridge keeps track of the ports >> that support learning and flooding packets to unknown destinations. >> We call these ports auto-discovery ports since they automatically >> discover who is behind them through learning and flooding. >> >> If flooding and learning are disabled via flags, then the port >> requires static configuration to tell it which mac addresses >> are behind it. This is accomplished through adding of fdbs. >> These fdbs should be static as dynamic fdbs can expire and systems >> will become unreachable due to lack of flooding. > > Hi Vlad, > > This is not a comment for this patch set, but I have a question. > > I'm trying to use bridge command to turn off flood/learning but couldn't > find the corresponding command. > I'm expecting something like "bridge link set br0 flood/learning". > > Are there any other userspace commands that can set flood/learning flag? > I've just found them in sysfs. Sorry for noise, thanks. Toshiaki Makita.
