[pve-devel] bridge on top of bridge?

[Stefan Priebe]

Am 11.02.2015 um 22:28 schrieb Andrew Thrift:
> Hi Stefan,
>
> I posted a patch to do this a while back:
>
> http://pve.proxmox.com/pipermail/pve-devel/2013-April/006995.html
>
> It will need a few changes to work on pve-test but we have been running
> it in production for a few years now.

so you're talking about QinQ? Never thought about that. Sounds like a 
good idea too.

Stefan
>
>
>
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> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Stefan Priebe <s.priebe at profihost.ag
> <mailto:s.priebe at profihost.ag>> wrote:
>
>
>     Am 11.02.2015 um 20:25 schrieb Alexandre DERUMIER:
>
>                 does anybody know a way to have two bridges on top of
>                 one bond?
>
>
>         AFAIK, it's not possible to put a single interfaces on 2 bridge.
>
>         It's possible with tagged interfaces.
>
>
>     Yes but the problem is i just would like to have a PVID - so no
>     untagged traffic on that bridge but there may be other tap devices
>     with a vid.
>
>         But I think that mixing 1 interface - 1 brige
>                                   1 internface.tag - 1 another bridge
>
>         is not working
>         (maybe a linux bug).
>
>     That may work but won't help me as the "another" bridge may contain
>     multiple other tags.
>
>         I think it's work with openvswitch.
>         (I think it work also with an ovs on top of another ovs with
>         tagged port)
>
>
>     That sounds great. Never touched openvswitch? Is there a howto for
>     proxmox? What's the advantage over normal linux bridges?
>
>     Greets,
>     Stefan
>
>
>
>         ----- Mail original -----
>         De: "Stefan Priebe" <s.priebe at profihost.ag
>         <mailto:s.priebe at profihost.ag>>
>         À: "pve-devel" <pve-devel at pve.proxmox.com
>         <mailto:pve-devel at pve.proxmox.com>>
>         Envoyé: Mercredi 11 Février 2015 13:41:58
>         Objet: [pve-devel] bridge on top of bridge?
>
>         Hi,
>
>         does anybody know a way to have two bridges on top of one bond?
>         I woulod
>         like to use the PVID feature for another bridge than the default one
>         (private LAN without the need to enable tagging on the tap device).
>
>         I already tried to add the 2nd bridge on top of the bond or to
>         put the
>         2nd bridge into the first bridge. Both does not work.
>
>         Greets,
>         Stefan
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