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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:04:25 +0200 From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> CC: jpirko@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, jgarzik@...ox.com, shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, fubar@...ibm.com, bonding-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, mschmidt@...hat.com, dada1@...mosbay.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: allow bond in mode balance-alb to work properly in bridge -try4 David Miller wrote: > From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> > Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:53:13 +0100 > >> ... an alternative approach >> would be to have bonding add FDB entries for all secondary MACs to >> make bridging treat them as local. > > Do you guys foresee any possibility of an alternative implementation > any time soon? > > Otherwise we're just stalling by not putting something into the tree, > and as far as I can tell this patch here might as well be it. Adding bridge FDB entries seems like the best fix. It might need some minor ugliness to avoid new dependencies between bonding and bridging, but it definitely beats having new hooks in the core in my opinion. But I have no idea whether Jiri is actually implementing this. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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