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Message-ID: <20200910190817.xfckbgxxuzupmnhb@skbuf>
Date:   Thu, 10 Sep 2020 22:08:17 +0300
From:   Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>
Subject: Re: VLAN filtering with DSA

On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 12:05:17PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 9/10/2020 12:01 PM, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 11:42:02AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > > On 9/10/2020 8:07 AM, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > > Yes, doing what you suggest would make perfect sense for a DSA master that
> > > is capable of VLAN filtering, I did encounter that problem with e1000 and
> > > the dsa-loop.c mockup driver while working on a mock-up 802.1Q data path.
> > 
> > Yes, I have another patch where I add those VLANs from tag_8021q.c which
> > I did not show here.
> > 
> > But if the DSA switch that uses tag_8021q is cascaded to another one,
> > that's of little use if the upper switch does not propagate that
> > configuration to its own upstream.
> 
> Yes, that would not work. As soon as you have a bridge spanning any of those
> switches, does not the problem go away by virtue of the switch port forcing
> the DSA master/upstream to be in promiscuous mode?

Well, yes, bridged it works but standalone it doesn't. A bit strange if
you ask me.

-Vladimir

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