similar to: [Bridge] [evb] RE: [PATCH][RFC] net/bridge: add basic VEPA support

This is based on an earlier patch from Eric Biederman adding forwarding between macvlans. I extended his approach to allow the administrator to choose the mode for each macvlan, and to implement a functional VEPA between macvlan. Still missing from this is support for communication between the lower device that the macvlans are based on. This would be extremely useful but as others have found out

This is based on an earlier patch from Eric Biederman adding forwarding between macvlans. I extended his approach to allow the administrator to choose the mode for each macvlan, and to implement a functional VEPA between macvlan. Still missing from this is support for communication between the lower device that the macvlans are based on. This would be extremely useful but as others have found out

This is based on an earlier patch from Eric Biederman adding forwarding between macvlans. I extended his approach to allow the administrator to choose the mode for each macvlan, and to implement a functional VEPA between macvlan. Still missing from this is support for communication between the lower device that the macvlans are based on. This would be extremely useful but as others have found out

This patch adds basic Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA) capabilities to the Linux kernel Ethernet bridging code. A Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA) is a capability within a physical end station that collaborates with an adjacent, external bridge to provide distributed bridging support between multiple virtual end stations and external networks. The VEPA collaborates by forwarding all

This patch adds basic Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA) capabilities to the Linux kernel Ethernet bridging code. A Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA) is a capability within a physical end station that collaborates with an adjacent, external bridge to provide distributed bridging support between multiple virtual end stations and external networks. The VEPA collaborates by forwarding all

This patch adds basic Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA) capabilities to the Linux kernel Ethernet bridging code. A Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA) is a capability within a physical end station that collaborates with an adjacent, external bridge to provide distributed bridging support between multiple virtual end stations and external networks. The VEPA collaborates by forwarding all

This patch adds a 'hairpin' (also called 'reflective relay') mode port configuration to the Linux Ethernet bridge kernel module. A bridge supporting hairpin forwarding mode can send frames back out through the port the frame was received on. Hairpin mode is required to support basic VEPA (Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator) capabilities. You can find additional information on VEPA

This patch adds a 'hairpin' (also called 'reflective relay') mode port configuration to the Linux Ethernet bridge kernel module. A bridge supporting hairpin forwarding mode can send frames back out through the port the frame was received on. Hairpin mode is required to support basic VEPA (Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator) capabilities. You can find additional information on VEPA

This patch adds a 'hairpin' (also called 'reflective relay') mode port configuration to the Linux Ethernet bridge kernel module. A bridge supporting hairpin forwarding mode can send frames back out through the port the frame was received on. Hairpin mode is required to support basic VEPA (Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator) capabilities. You can find additional information on VEPA

Second version, all feedback so far addressed, thanks for the help and interest! The patch to iproute2 has not changed, so I'm not including it this time. Patch 4/4 (the netlink interface) is basically unchanged as well but included for completeness. The other changes have moved forward a bit, to the point where I find them a lot cleaner and am more confident in the code being ready for

Second version, all feedback so far addressed, thanks for the help and interest! The patch to iproute2 has not changed, so I'm not including it this time. Patch 4/4 (the netlink interface) is basically unchanged as well but included for completeness. The other changes have moved forward a bit, to the point where I find them a lot cleaner and am more confident in the code being ready for

Second version, all feedback so far addressed, thanks for the help and interest! The patch to iproute2 has not changed, so I'm not including it this time. Patch 4/4 (the netlink interface) is basically unchanged as well but included for completeness. The other changes have moved forward a bit, to the point where I find them a lot cleaner and am more confident in the code being ready for

Not many changes this time, just integrated a bug fix and all the coding style feedback from Eric Dumazet and Patrick McHardy. I'll keep the patch for network namespaces on the tx path out of this series for now, because the discussion is still ongoing and it addresses an unrelated issue. --- Version 2 description: The patch to iproute2 has not changed, so I'm not including it this

Not many changes this time, just integrated a bug fix and all the coding style feedback from Eric Dumazet and Patrick McHardy. I'll keep the patch for network namespaces on the tx path out of this series for now, because the discussion is still ongoing and it addresses an unrelated issue. --- Version 2 description: The patch to iproute2 has not changed, so I'm not including it this

Not many changes this time, just integrated a bug fix and all the coding style feedback from Eric Dumazet and Patrick McHardy. I'll keep the patch for network namespaces on the tx path out of this series for now, because the discussion is still ongoing and it addresses an unrelated issue. --- Version 2 description: The patch to iproute2 has not changed, so I'm not including it this

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 1:32 PM Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com> wrote: > On 5/13/20 12:52 AM, Subhendu Ghosh wrote: > > Hi > > > > Couple of questions around macvtap direct usage: > > > > 1) is the document here current? > > https://libvirt.org/formatnetwork.html#examplesDirect > > Yes. None of that has changed in any major way in many years. >

This patch adds basic Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA) capabilities to the Linux Ethernet bridging utilities. The patch provides functionality that depends on the Linux kernel patch 'net/bridge: add basic VEPA support'. This patch relies on the patch 'bridge-utils: fix sysfs path for setting bridge configuration parameters'. A Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA) is

This patch adds basic Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA) capabilities to the Linux Ethernet bridging utilities. The patch provides functionality that depends on the Linux kernel patch 'net/bridge: add basic VEPA support'. This patch relies on the patch 'bridge-utils: fix sysfs path for setting bridge configuration parameters'. A Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA) is

This patch adds basic Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA) capabilities to the Linux Ethernet bridging utilities. The patch provides functionality that depends on the Linux kernel patch 'net/bridge: add basic VEPA support'. This patch relies on the patch 'bridge-utils: fix sysfs path for setting bridge configuration parameters'. A Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA) is

I did not get this ready for the merge window, but people asked what the status of this is so I'm posting it now to solicit feedback. The first patch just adds some hooks into macvlan.c and is less invasive than the previous version. That part should be fine and I'd like this to get merged into macvlan for 2.6.33 if people agree that the approach is right. The second patch adds the