netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/3] bridge: Some nice new things for vlan filtering

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Date:	Mon, 15 Sep 2014 09:24:05 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:	Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, shemminger@...tta.com,
	bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	Toshiaki Makita <makita.toshiaki@....ntt.co.jp>,
	Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] bridge: Some nice new things for vlan filtering

On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:44:48 -0400
Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com> wrote:

> While working with vlan filtering and non-promisc mode, I've found
> myself wanting untagged traffic to automatically pass through the
> bridge.  So I decided to introduce the concept of a per bridge default
> pvid.  VLAN 1 is used as default pvid by default and can be changed
> by user through sysfs while vlan filtering is off. (I'll be adding netlink
> support now that Jiri Pirko kindly added the ifrastructure).  Default
> pvid is assigned to all ports that do not assign their own pvid or
> already have a given vlan configured.  This makes it very simple
> to enable vlan filtering on the bridge, not have to configure a thing,
> and still pass untagged traffic.
> 
> The other small thing this series adds is automatic update of the
> vlan filter when vlan is configured on top of the bridge.  In this
> case we automatically add the given vlan to the bridge filter list.
> The ports may still need to be updated as we don't know which ports
> are allowed to receive a given vlan.
> 
> Thanks
> -vlad
> 
> Vladislav Yasevich (3):
>   bridge: Add a default_pvid sysfs attribute
>   bridge: Add filtering support for default_pvid
>   bridge; Automatically filter vlans configured on top of bridge
> 
>  net/bridge/br_device.c   |  54 +++++++++++++++++++---
>  net/bridge/br_if.c       |   2 +
>  net/bridge/br_private.h  |  35 ++++++++++++++-
>  net/bridge/br_sysfs_br.c |  17 +++++++
>  net/bridge/br_vlan.c     | 113 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  5 files changed, 213 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 

Please, no special VLAN 1, other equipment has that silliness.

Why is untagged traffic not treated as VLAN 0?
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