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Re: Is it valid to add a macvlan virtual interface to a bridge? If so, there seems to be a bug with it.

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From: Ben Greear <greearb@...>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...>
Cc: Mark Smith <ipng@...>, Patrick McHardy <kaber@...>, <netdev@...>
Subject: Re: Is it valid to add a macvlan virtual interface to a bridge? If so, there seems to be a bug with it.
Date: Friday, December 5, 2008 - 8:43 pm

Stephen Hemminger wrote:


> Why bother, a macvlan is just a special case of a bridge, so why not


You can add multiple mac-vlans to a single interface, but you can only

add one bridge on top of that interface.


If you need lots of (virtual) interfaces, bridges won't work as far

as I can tell.


Thanks,

Ben


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Ben Greear

Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


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Is it valid to add a macvlan virtual interface to a bridge? ..., Mark Smith, (Thu Dec 4, 6:03 am)
Re: Is it valid to add a macvlan virtual interface to a brid..., Patrick McHardy, (Thu Dec 4, 9:01 am)
Re: Is it valid to add a macvlan virtual interface to a brid..., Herbert Xu, (Wed Dec 17, 11:44 pm)
Re: Is it valid to add a macvlan virtual interface to a brid..., Patrick McHardy, (Mon Jan 12, 12:55 am)
Re: Is it valid to add a macvlan virtual interface to a brid..., Ben Greear, (Fri Dec 5, 1:43 pm)
Re: Is it valid to add a macvlan virtual interface to a brid..., Mark Smith, (Fri Dec 5, 6:54 pm)
Re: Is it valid to add a macvlan virtual interface to a brid..., Ben Greear, (Fri Dec 5, 8:08 pm)
Re: Is it valid to add a macvlan virtual interface to a brid..., Stephen Hemminger, (Fri Dec 5, 8:26 pm)
Re: Is it valid to add a macvlan virtual interface to a brid..., Ben Greear, (Fri Dec 5, 8:43 pm)