[pve-devel] bridge on top of bridge?

Andrew Thrift andrew at networklabs.co.nz
Wed Feb 11 22:28:10 CET 2015


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.




On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Stefan Priebe <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>
>> À: "pve-devel" <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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