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* [gentoo-user] Use brctl from bridge-utils or bridge from iproute2?
@ 2016-10-15 23:46 Miroslav Rovis
  2016-10-16  3:05 ` Erik Mackdanz
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Miroslav Rovis @ 2016-10-15 23:46 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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Hi!

The:
/usr/share/doc/netifrc-0.4.0/net.example.bz2
from the net-misc/netifrc package reads:

# Bridging (802.1d)
# For bridging support emerge net-misc/bridge-utils

# To add ports to bridge br0
#bridge_br0="eth0 eth1"
...
et cetera
...

How is this done with the bridge utility from iproute2 package is not very
clear to a non-expert. It sure is all completely different than with brctl.

Reminds me of how lots of people still prefer iptables over netfilter,
because there are good reason to do so.

It this a similar case?

While managing ones' ethernet interfaces, esp. the link and address of,
surely iproute2 package is superior than net-tools suite (expecially
the ip is superior than the ifconfig), and I mostly switched to the
better iproute2 replacements for net-tools suite, as per:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Iproute2#iproute2_for_net-tools_swappers

-- also notice that bridge in not in the swappers there --
).

The net-tools vs. iproute2 question is solved for me in that respect.

However I can much more easily use the brctl from: 
net-misc/bridge-utils

(and indeed, https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Network_bridge still suggests so)
than the bridge from Iproute2 package.

Stick to bridge-utils or try the bridge from Iproute2?

And if the latter, any suggestions of a more detailed and more complete
and more user friendly tutorials?

Regards!
-- 
Miroslav Rovis
Zagreb, Croatia
http://www.CroatiaFidelis.hr

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2016-10-15 23:46 [gentoo-user] Use brctl from bridge-utils or bridge from iproute2? Miroslav Rovis
2016-10-16  3:05 ` Erik Mackdanz
2016-10-16  3:13   ` Erik Mackdanz
2016-10-16  4:45     ` Miroslav Rovis
2016-10-16  5:10   ` Miroslav Rovis
2016-10-16  6:33     ` Alon Bar-Lev
2016-10-16 20:19       ` Miroslav Rovis
2016-10-16 20:23         ` Alon Bar-Lev
2016-10-17  0:14           ` Miroslav Rovis

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