netdev - Re: how to mix bridges and bonding inc. vlans correctly on Kernel

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Date:	Mon, 18 Nov 2013 08:37:55 +0100
From:	Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.priebe@...fihost.ag>
To:	Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>
CC:	Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com>,
	Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how to mix bridges and bonding inc. vlans correctly on Kernel
 > 3.10

Am 17.11.2013 04:41, schrieb Vladislav Yasevich:
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Stefan Priebe <s.priebe@...fihost.ag> wrote:
>> Am 14.11.2013 22:13, schrieb Vlad Yasevich:
>>
>>> On 11/14/2013 07:29 AM, Veaceslav Falico wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 08:47:28AM +0100, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>> eth2
>>>>>>      \
>>>>>>       -- bond1 -- vmbr1
>>>>>>      /     \
>>>>>> eth3        ----- bond1.3000 --- vmbr1v3000
>>>>>>                                      \ ---- tap114i1
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> thos one works fine now.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> eth2
>>>>>>      \
>>>>>>       -- bond1 -- vmbr1
>>>>>>      /              \
>>>>>> eth3                 \ vmbr1.3000
>>>>>>                            \ ---- tap114i1
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> this one does not. Another note to this one. It also never worked on
>>>>> RHEL6 - it started working with about 2.6.39 and stopped with 3.9 or
>>>>> 3.10. But it was the only one where gvrp on vlans had worked.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> bridge device in this config is neither master nor slave, if I read it
>>>> correctly.
>>>
>>>
>>> Bridge doesn't propagate rx_flags to lower-level devices.  It
>>> automatically set all lower devices to promisc mode.
>>>
>>> So, in the second case above, eth2 and eth3 have to be in promisc, but
>>> nothing else does.  I am not sure I understand Stefans notation though
>>> wrt to how vmbr1.3000 and tap114i1 are configured.  Stefan,  can you
>>> elaborate?
>>
>>
>> Sorry . means vlan - so vmbr1.3000 is just a vlan on top of vmbr1. *brX is a
>> bridge. Bond is a lacp bond ;-)
>>
> 
> Ok.  I got that.  But where is tap attached?  You are showing it
> attached to the vlan,
> but you can't do that unless its a macvtap.

Why not? It was working until 3.9 - but with the patch in this thread
the first method adding a bridge on top of the bond works fine - so this
is OK for me too.

Greets,
Stefan
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