On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 14:50:33 -0800
Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Providing brctl or ifconfig scripts is possible, but it really should
> be put in a sample or demo directory and not installed by default.
> It would just cause too much pain to distributions.
On one hand, I did it this way exactly to
On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 08:28:29 -0800
Roopa Prabhu wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 4:46 AM Stefano Brivio wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 14:30:59 -0800
> > Roopa Prabhu wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 11:57 PM Stefano Brivio
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > They can't replace brctl
On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 4:46 AM Stefano Brivio wrote:
>
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 14:30:59 -0800
> Roopa Prabhu wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 11:57 PM Stefano Brivio wrote:
> > >
> > > They can't replace brctl not because they are badly designed or
> > > unusable, but simply because they are
Hi,
For your information: I recently submitted a patch that implements
brctl as a wrapper using ip-link and 'bridge' from iproute2, that
allows to drop bridge-utils while still providing brctl functionality:
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1027627/
This wasn't exactly met with enthusi
On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 14:30:59 -0800
Roopa Prabhu wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 11:57 PM Stefano Brivio wrote:
> >
> > They can't replace brctl not because they are badly designed or
> > unusable, but simply because they are different tools with different
> > purposes (see also my comments to N
On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 22:12:45 -0700
David Ahern wrote:
> This is a convenience wrapper around commands packaged in iproute2. If
> iproute2 adds this wrapper, it will have to carry it and maintain it
> forever. Distributions (Fedora, RHEL, Debian, etc) may see it
> differently and decide to add thi
On 1/30/19 3:55 AM, Stefano Brivio wrote:
>> I get your intent, but this seems more appropriate for you / Red Hat to
>> carry than something we want to distribute as part of iproute2.
>
> Sure, I could also do that, but:
>
> - me creating another project: similar maintenance burden for
> distri
On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 11:57 PM Stefano Brivio wrote:
>
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 21:08:13 -0800
> Roopa Prabhu wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 2:05 AM Stefano Brivio wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Roopa,
> > >
> > > On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 08:33:27 -0800
> > > Roopa Prabhu wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Wed, Ja
Hi David,
On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 21:51:24 -0700
David Ahern wrote:
> On 1/18/19 10:00 AM, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> > This script wraps 'ip' and 'bridge' tools to provide a drop-in replacement
> > of the standalone 'brctl' utility.
> >
> > It's bug-to-bug compatible with brctl as of bridge-utils ver
On 1/18/19 10:00 AM, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> This script wraps 'ip' and 'bridge' tools to provide a drop-in replacement
> of the standalone 'brctl' utility.
>
> It's bug-to-bug compatible with brctl as of bridge-utils version 1.6,
> has no dependencies other than a POSIX shell, and it's less than
On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 21:08:13 -0800
Roopa Prabhu wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 2:05 AM Stefano Brivio wrote:
> >
> > Hi Roopa,
> >
> > On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 08:33:27 -0800
> > Roopa Prabhu wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 7:09 AM Nikolay Aleksandrov
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
>
On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 2:05 AM Stefano Brivio wrote:
>
> Hi Roopa,
>
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 08:33:27 -0800
> Roopa Prabhu wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 7:09 AM Nikolay Aleksandrov
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > IMO the effort should be towards improving iproute2 to be
> > > easier to use
Hi Roopa,
On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 08:33:27 -0800
Roopa Prabhu wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 7:09 AM Nikolay Aleksandrov
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > IMO the effort should be towards improving iproute2 to be
> > easier to use and more intuitive. We should be pushing people to
> > use the new tools inst
Hi Nik,
On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 17:09:42 +0200
Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> IMO the effort should be towards improving iproute2 to be
> easier to use and more intuitive. We should be pushing people to use
> the new tools instead of trying to find workarounds to keep the old
> tools alive.
Indeed, i
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 7:09 AM Nikolay Aleksandrov
wrote:
>
> On 18/01/2019 19:00, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> > This script wraps 'ip' and 'bridge' tools to provide a drop-in replacement
> > of the standalone 'brctl' utility.
> >
> > It's bug-to-bug compatible with brctl as of bridge-utils version 1
On 18/01/2019 19:00, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> This script wraps 'ip' and 'bridge' tools to provide a drop-in replacement
> of the standalone 'brctl' utility.
>
> It's bug-to-bug compatible with brctl as of bridge-utils version 1.6,
> has no dependencies other than a POSIX shell, and it's less than
This script wraps 'ip' and 'bridge' tools to provide a drop-in replacement
of the standalone 'brctl' utility.
It's bug-to-bug compatible with brctl as of bridge-utils version 1.6,
has no dependencies other than a POSIX shell, and it's less than half
the binary size of brctl on x86_64.
As many use
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