<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/17/2014 03:35 PM, Alin Rauta wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:1418830536-630-1-git-send-email-alin.rauta@intel.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi Tom, I've formatted the patch based on our previous discussions. This one has support only for adding FDB entries. An example configuration is like below: [Match] Name=em1 [Network] DHCP=v4 [BridgeFDB] MACAddress=44:44:12:34:56:71 VLANId=9 [BridgeFDB] MACAddress=44:44:12:34:56:70 VLANId=2 br0 Please let me know what you think. Thanks, Alin</pre> </blockquote> If I start trying to match this with the entire type network files and their path ( feel free to correct me where I'm wrong here ) It would have to look like this... ### em1.link ### [Link] Name=em1 MACAddress=44:44:12:34:56:70 MTUBytes=9216 ### vlan2.netdev ### [NetDev] Name=vlan2 Kind=vlan [VLAN] Id=2 ### em1.network ### [Match] Name=em1 Bridge=bridge0 VLAN=vlan2 [Network] DHCP=v4 [BridgeFDB] MACAddress=44:44:12:34:56:70 VLANId=2 ### bridge0.netdev ### [NetDev] Name=bridge0 Kind=bridge ### bridge0.netdev ### ### em2.network ### [Match] Name=em2 Bridge=bridge0 VLAN=vlan9 [Network] DHCP=v4 [BridgeFDB] MACAddress=44:44:12:34:56:71 VLANId=9 ### vlan9.netdev ### [NetDev] Name=vlan9 Kind=vlan [VLAN] Id=9 <code></code> ### em2.link ### [Link] Name=em2 MACAddress=44:44:12:34:56:71 MTUBytes=9216 My fyrst question is can you really have two [BridgeFDB] entries which contains two different mac address being matched to the same interface ( em1 like you do in your example )? If the answer to that is yes then my question is should those entries not belong in the bridge.netdev file If the answer to that is no then my questions are.. Do you really need to define an [BridgeFDB] entry since the [Match] entry in the network file contains the matched link ( em1.link ) which in turn contains the MACAddress and the VLAN entry in the [Match] entry in the network file contains the vlan which in turn is spesified in the netdev file which contains the vlan id? Assuming you have to flush *all* BridgeFDB entries for all the interfaces tied to a bridge, should it not be enough to flush the bridge0 device itself? Feel free to correct me where I'm wrong here. JBG Aside note from an administrator point of view I feel we should drop the .netdev file and replace it with each type netdev instead so in the sample above we would have bridge0.bridge vlan2.vlan, vlan9.vlan along with em1.link em2.link em2.network em2.network </body> </html>