Re: improvements

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 06:56:54AM +1000, Darren Reed wrote:
> On 29/09/2013 8:24 PM, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> >...
> >So, if I get it right, you want one bridge(4) per forwarding
> >domain, not one bridge that handle several forwarding domain. How
> >would one port belonging to several forwarding domains (via 802.1q
> >encap for example) be represented ?
> 
> Simple.
> 
> Create multiple vlan(4) interfaces per port and have each vlan(4)
> interface be a member of a different bridge(4) domain.

I'm not sure I like this. This is the opposite of how you manage a
real switch (hp, cisco, etc ...). On these device, you have a single view
of the switching fabric, with vlan tag information when pertinent.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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