[pve-devel] [PATCH] support QinQ / vlan stacking

[Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG]

Am 12.03.2015 um 15:52 schrieb Dietmar Maurer:
>> Am 12.03.2015 um 09:55 schrieb Alexandre DERUMIER:
>>>>> Strangely QinQ works fine with vanilla 3.10 and also with RHEL 3.10. No
>>>>> idea what has changed.
>>>
>>> Yes, but the vlan_filtering qinq patch from 3.16 is about managing all
>>> inside the linux bridge.
>>> (without tagging on ethX interfaces).
>>>
>>> and, linux bridge is aware of vlan tags and qinq tags with this.
>>
>> ah OK but this also means we rely on kernel version and features. I
>> would still vote just for your ebtables patches. You can control all
>> packet types also VLAN packets with it and it works since Kernel 3.2.
> 
> Our jessie release will be based on 3.10.0, and we will not support older
> versions.
> So it should be safe to use the vlan_filtering code?

Yes.

> And we can also apply the ebtables patch. Or is there something preventing this?

NO - OK fine.

Great!

Stefan