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Roopa Prabhu 41c389d72c bridge: Add bridge ifindex to bridge fdb notify msgs
(This patch was previously posted as RFC at
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/352677/)

This patch adds NDA_MASTER attribute to neighbour attributes enum for
bridge/master ifindex. And adds NDA_MASTER to bridge fdb notify msgs.

Today bridge fdb notifications dont contain bridge information.
Userspace can derive it from the port information in the fdb
notification. However this is tricky in some scenarious.

Example, bridge port delete notification comes before bridge fdb
delete notifications. And we have seen problems in userspace
when using libnl where, the bridge fdb delete notification handling code
does not understand which bridge this fdb entry is part of because
the bridge and port association has already been deleted.
And these notifications (port membership and fdb) are generated on
separate rtnl groups.

Fixing the order of notifications could possibly solve the problem
for some cases (I can submit a separate patch for that).

This patch chooses to add NDA_MASTER to bridge fdb notify msgs
because it not only solves the problem described above, but also helps
userspace avoid another lookup into link msgs to derive the master index.

Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-06-02 17:58:55 -07:00
Li Zhong c04e7da013 neighbour.h: fix comment
Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2014-01-22 10:34:15 +01:00
David Stevens 6681712d67 vxlan: generalize forwarding tables
This patch generalizes VXLAN forwarding table entries allowing an administrator
to:
	1) specify multiple destinations for a given MAC
	2) specify alternate vni's in the VXLAN header
	3) specify alternate destination UDP ports
	4) use multicast MAC addresses as fdb lookup keys
	5) specify multicast destinations
	6) specify the outgoing interface for forwarded packets

The combination allows configuration of more complex topologies using VXLAN
encapsulation.

Changes since v1: rebase to 3.9.0-rc2

Signed-Off-By: David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-03-17 12:23:46 -04:00
Vlad Yasevich 1690be63a2 bridge: Add vlan support to static neighbors
When a user adds bridge neighbors, allow him to specify VLAN id.
If the VLAN id is not specified, the neighbor will be added
for VLANs currently in the ports filter list.  If no VLANs are
configured on the port, we use vlan 0 and only add 1 entry.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jitendra Kalsaria <jitendra.kalsaria@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-02-13 19:42:16 -05:00
David Howells 607ca46e97 UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2012-10-13 10:46:48 +01:00