From: Alon Bar-Lev <alonbl@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Use brctl from bridge-utils or bridge from iproute2?
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 23:23:33 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOazyz3LwYzxrx43B-Fri_Rzc3fhNrY3MhwBv8FeTv4O1XX1sg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161016201950.GG5079@g0n.xdwgrp>
On 16 October 2016 at 23:19, Miroslav Rovis
<miro.rovis@croatiafidelis.hr> wrote:
> On 161016-09:33+0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
>> On 16 October 2016 at 08:10, Miroslav Rovis
>> <miro.rovis@croatiafidelis.hr> wrote:
>> > On 161016-03:05+0000, Erik Mackdanz wrote:
>> >> Miroslav Rovis <miro.rovis@croatiafidelis.hr> writes:
>> > ...
>> >> > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Iproute2#iproute2_for_net-tools_swappers
>> >> >
>> >> > -- also notice that bridge in not in the swappers there --
>> >> I just added 'ip link set master'
>> >
>> > But that's not entirely correct, although only because the:
>> >
>> > brctl addbr
>> > brctl addif
>> >
>> > do not belong under "net-tools".
>> >
>> > You, or someone else, should make a separate table with the comparison
>> > of the bridge-utils (containing brctl) and iproute2's utilitiy bridge.
>> >
>> > And then probably also the usermode-utilities (containing tunctl) and
>> > whatever the iproute2's utilitiy is that replaces those.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The non stable netirfc supports bridge via iproute2, please see [1]
>
> I do live with a ~amd64 (for long years by now)...
>
>> Regards,
>> Alon
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Netifrc/Brctl_Migration
>>
> Thanks! I have taken notice.
>
> I hope the:
>
> /usr/share/doc/netifrc-0.4.0/net.example.bz2
>
> of netifrc package has been updated, ot will soon be updated as well,
> with tips for users who need lots of kind documentation like me ;-) !
Noted, added[1].
[1] https://github.com/gentoo/netifrc/pull/23
> I just looked it up, but it may be my lack of knowledge... I see brctl
> there, but am unsure if iproute2's bridge is supported... Sorry!
It is, see[2] :)
[2] https://github.com/gentoo/netifrc/pull/15
> (However, I've done my bridge configuration for now. More pressing
> issues elsewhere I have...)
>
> Regards!
> --
> Miroslav Rovis
> Zagreb, Croatia
> http://www.CroatiaFidelis.hr
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-16 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
2016-10-17 0:14 ` Miroslav Rovis
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