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authorstephen hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>2011-04-04 10:03:31 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-04-04 20:22:28 -0400
commit36fd2b63e3b4336744cf3f6a6c9543ecbec334a7 (patch)
tree0793a71cf90d8bb3ea1573564ad5bed485324396 /net/bridge/br_netlink.c
parentb078f0df676233fc7ebc1ab270bd11ef5824bb64 (diff)
bridge: allow creating/deleting fdb entries via netlink
Use RTM_NEWNEIGH and RTM_DELNEIGH to allow updating of entries in bridge forwarding table. This allows manipulating static entries which is not possible with existing tools. Example (using bridge extensions to iproute2) # br fdb add 00:02:03:04:05:06 dev eth0 Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/bridge/br_netlink.c')
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
index cedcafd115f3..fb7d5a7478fe 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_netlink.c
@@ -196,6 +196,9 @@ int __init br_netlink_init(void)
196 196
197 /* Only the first call to __rtnl_register can fail */ 197 /* Only the first call to __rtnl_register can fail */
198 __rtnl_register(PF_BRIDGE, RTM_SETLINK, br_rtm_setlink, NULL); 198 __rtnl_register(PF_BRIDGE, RTM_SETLINK, br_rtm_setlink, NULL);
199
200 __rtnl_register(PF_BRIDGE, RTM_NEWNEIGH, br_fdb_add, NULL);
201 __rtnl_register(PF_BRIDGE, RTM_DELNEIGH, br_fdb_delete, NULL);
199 __rtnl_register(PF_BRIDGE, RTM_GETNEIGH, NULL, br_fdb_dump); 202 __rtnl_register(PF_BRIDGE, RTM_GETNEIGH, NULL, br_fdb_dump);
200 203
201 return 0; 204 return 0;