Re: Simplify bridge(4)

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On 12/02/2016 08:34, Ryota Ozaki wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 3:17 AM, Mouse <mouse%rodents-montreal.org@localhost> wrote:
>>> [J]ust wondering if we are going to see vether(4) anytime soon.
>>
>> How would this vether differ from the existing tap?  Presumably I'm
>> just missing something....
> 
> dhcpcd didn't work well with bridge(4) and tap(4) didn't help that.
> vether(4) would help that. We may be able to address the issue by
> fixing bridge or tap but I have no idea for now.

It's not actually dhcpcd itself - it's the kernel BPF implementation.
There was also an issue where some DHCPv6 messages were not following
across the bridge properly either.

If vether solves that then great, but does that mean we could drop the
tap interface entirely or just swap it in place?
From my perspective (a user), there is no difference between tap and vether?

Roy