netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] bridge: neigh msg proxy and flood suppression support

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Date:   Mon, 2 Oct 2017 07:49:09 -0700
From:   Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
To:     "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>,
        "stephen@...workplumber.org" <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] bridge: neigh msg proxy and flood
 suppression support

On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 9:36 PM, Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com> wrote:
> From: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
>
> This series implements arp and nd suppression in the bridge
> driver for ethernet vpns. It implements rfc7432, section 10
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7432#section-10
> for ethernet VPN deployments. It is similar to the existing
> BR_ARP_PROXY flag but has a few semantic differences to conform
> to EVPN standard. In case of EVPN, it is mainly used to avoid flooding to
> tunnel ports like vxlan/mpls. Unlike the existing flags it suppresses flood
> of all neigh discovery packets (arp, nd) to tunnel ports.
>
> Roopa Prabhu (3):
>   bridge: add new BR_NEIGH_SUPPRESS port flag to suppress arp and nd
>     flood
>   neigh arp suppress first
>   bridge: suppress nd messages from going to BR_NEIGH_SUPPRESS ports
>

pls ignore, shows conflict applying over recent net-next bridge
changes. Will rebase and submit v2.