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Re: [RFC 3/9] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add support for VTU ops

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On 06/02/2015 12:44 AM, Scott Feldman wrote:
> That brings up an interesting point about having multiple bridges with
> the same vlan configured.  I struggled with that problem with rocker
> also and I don't have an answer other than "don't do that".  Or,
> better put, if you have multiple bridge on the same vlan, just use one
> bridge for that vlan.  Otherwise, I don't know how at the device level
> to partition the vlan between the bridges.  Maybe that's what Vivien
> is facing also?  I can see how this works for software-only bridges,
> because they should be isolated from each other and independent.  But
> when offloading to a device which sees VLAN XXX global across the
> entire switch, I don't see how we can preserve the bridge boundaries.

Scott,

I'm confused by this.  I think you're saying this config is problematic:

br0: eth0.100, eth1.100
br1: eth2.100, eth3.100

But this works fine today.

Could you clarify the issue you're referring to?

Thanks,
- nolan
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Re: [RFC 3/9] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add support for VTU ops nolan <nolan@cumulusnetworks.com> - 2015-06-03 00:40 +0200
  Re: [RFC 3/9] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: add support for VTU ops Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com> - 2015-06-03 09:00 +0200

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