netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: fix hardware bridging

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Date:	Wed, 14 Oct 2015 21:28:55 -0400
From:	Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>
To:	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel@...oirfairelinux.com,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@...libre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: fix hardware bridging

On Oct. Thursday 15 (42) 12:46 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 06:08:34PM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> > DSA and its drivers currently hook the NETDEV_CHANGEUPPER net_device event in
> > order to configure the VLAN map of every port.
> > 
> > This VLAN map is a feature of these switch chips to hardcode and restrict which
> > output ports a given input port can egress frames to.
> > 
> > A Linux bridge is a simple untagged VLAN propagated by the bridge code itself.
> > With a proper 802.1Q support, a driver does not need this hook anymore, and
> > will simply program the related VLAN object.
> > 
> > This patchset improves the hardware bridging code in the mv88e6xxx driver with
> > a strict 802.1Q mode.
> 
> Hi Vivien
> 
> I just tested this as part of net-next/master, and found a problem....
> 
> If i do:
> 
> ip link set lan0 up
> ip addr add 192.168.10.2/24 dev lan0
> 
> It will not ping. Looking in sys/kernel/debug/dsa0/stats i see
> broadcast packets, probably ARP, being received at the port.
> But they are not being forwarded out the CPU port.
> 
> If however i do
> 
> brctl addbr br0
> brctl addif br0 lan0
> ip addr add 192.168.10.2/24 dev br0
> ip link set br0 up
> 
> i can ping.
> 
> So it looks like we are too restrictive by default. You should be able
> to use interfaces as they are, without a bridge.

Correct, if the ports are not in a VLAN by default, they cannot talk.

If you want to, I think the special VLAN 0 can be used for that purpose.
IIRC, in a given configuration, Linux add the interfaces (thus programs
the hardware) with VLAN 0. I'm not sure when, maybe when the
.ndo_vlan_rx_add_vid is implemented, I need to give it a shot.

Otherwise, I can send you a patch configuring the VLAN 0 on switch
setup if this is the behavior we want.

Thanks,
-v
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